It is not clear what such conditions might be, but we have no way of excluding the idea on the
basis of pure thought.
The numerical system, now communicated, becomes available to my thought independently of the artwork, as if there were such a thing as a «
realm of pure thought».
You hoped that the more thoroughly you rejected the tangible, the closer you would be to spirit: that you would be more divine if you lived in the
world of pure thought, or at least more angelic if you fled the corporeal?
For the purposes of formulating a symbolic
language of pure thought, the task he set himself in the Begriffsschrift, it would be misleading to assume that judgments were aggregates of previously given constituent concepts.
It may also afford a clue to the puzzle as to why mathematics, which is a
project of pure thought, turns out to be so widely applicable to the description of the real world.
It was not at the
level of pure thought, therefore, that the metaphysical dualism presented Descartes with difficulties in respect of mathematical knowledge of the physical.
- Markus Pössel — Applied Purity - Beatrice Lugger — The
Thrill of Pure Thought and Abstraction - Kathleen Raven — Tannosomes and the trickle - around effect - Scicurious — IgNobels -LSB-...]
I have a feeling that Penny Pritzker quotes are going to become a regular
feature of PURE Thoughts, now that she's about to join the Board of Education as part of Mayor - elect Emanuel's «whole new leadership suite.»
Nash's faith in rationality and the
power of pure thought was extreme, even for a very young mathematician and even for the new age of computers, space travel, and nuclear weapons.
When I enter that
space of pure thought (which I like to think of as inhabiting a child's state of mind), creative possibilities are limitless.
An important thought behind this is that all things are essentially mental - that matter, while quite real on the one hand, is on the other hand composed of energy, and in turn,
of pure thought.»