Sentence examples for without concepts from inspiring English sources

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This was the time at which the distinction was first insisted upon between the "intellect" and a faculty called ingegno, ingenium, "wit" or "genius," as especially inventive of art; and, corresponding to this, a faculty of judgment, which was not a ratiocination or logical judgment, because it judged "without discourse" or "without concepts," and came to be called "taste".

As against the utilitarians he showed that the beautiful pleases "without interest" (i.e., utilitarian interest); against the intellectualists, that it pleases "without concepts"; and further, against both, that it has "the form of purposiveness" without "representation of a purpose"; and, against the hedonists, that it is "the object of a universal pleasure".

Toward the end of the 18th century, Kant expressed the theory quite succinctly in the Critique of Pure Reason: "Thoughts without content are empty; percepts without concepts are blind".

This cognition allows us and many non-human animals to navigate and operate in the world to a great extent without concepts.

One is reminded here of Kant's dictum that "concepts without intuition" (Anschauung i.e., empirical content) "are empty and that intuitions without concepts are blind".

Thus, without the existence of things there would be no concepts, without concepts no spoken words, and without spoken words no written ones.

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David Bark-Jones's overweening performance confirms everything that makes people suspicious of modern media dons (and maybe a little bit of Tom Stoppard), being undeniably brilliant but completely without concept of when to cease demonstrating the fact.

Derrida writes, "It is true that Ethics in Levinas's sense is an Ethics without law and without concept, which maintains its non-violent purity only before being determined as concepts and laws.

Without language, concepts, long-term causal thinking, she can still enter into the large part of our mind made up of appetites, longings, and loyalties.

(2015) provide a framework of OC warehouse operations designs and interdependencies without investigating concepts for physical distribution.

The trouble here, however, is to explain what makes these indexicals higher-order in content without attributing concepts like experience of green to the animal.

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