He writes that it is «partly the outcome of the human body, partly the single directive agency of the body, partly a system
of cogitations which have a certain irrelevance to the physical relationships of the body» (PR 164f).
Not exact matches
God's «primordial nature» is abstracted from his commerce with «particulars,» and is therefore devoid
of those «impure» intellectual
cogitations which involve propositions....
The ultimate percipient draws upon these unconscious
cogitations which have their own partial independence from the occasions
of the brain and body.
What these elements are in themselves it skilleth not, it is enough that to me which take them they are the body and blood
of Christ, his promise in witness hereof sufficeth, his word he knoweth which way to accomplish, why should any
cogitation possess the mind
of a faithful communicant but this, «O my God thou art true, O my Soul thou are happy.»
«With the purpose
of obtaining a one - substance cosmology, «prehensions» are a generalization from Descartes» mental «
cogitations», and from Locke's «ideas», to express the most concrete mode
of analysis applicable to every grade
of individual actuality» (PR 19/29).
In fact it clearly goes against the grain
of how we know society to work, and it is hardly an idea that a philosopher interested in «reality» could arrive at by
cogitation alone.
All
of my thoughts and
cogitations have been
of a healthy and cheerful kind, for instead
of doubts and fears I see things as they are, for I endeavor to adjust myself to my environment.
Sections
of it, when twiddled around a finger, have shown some promise as a stimulant to
cogitation.
The «laboratory» for all this
cogitation is a three - story stone cottage on a quiet side street in Oxford, with a little wavelet
of lavender lapping against the facade.
Sensation trumps
cogitation — unsurprising in a Hollywood production — which doesn't negate the enduring allure
of this beautiful bauble.
Well, it's there, even if it requires a bit
of intellectual
cogitation on the part
of a viewer, something that most Americans (and American critics) are unwilling to give.
Christopher Williams: The Production Line
of Happiness review — an exercise in fastidious
cogitation
Updated, 11:55 p.m. Needless to say, there's lots
of finger pointing and post-blizzard
cogitation under way in the wake
of the raging nor» easter the Weather Channel called Juno and others called the Blizzard
of 2015.
Update, Jan. 28, 7:01 a.m. Needless to say, there's plenty
of day - after
cogitation and finger pointing over the New York side
of snowfall forecasts, which the European model did poorly at — along with many meteorologists.
For this simple statement to make sense actually requires some
cogitation, as it is only your rant about what is «fact» that made me grasp the intended meaning
of Descartes» words, namely, that existence is a byproduct
of consciousness.