We have supposed that there is a third course to pursue; that is, to place ourselves back in pure duration.
Kant admits that the principle is the condition sine qua non of the truth of our cognitions, so that we must take care not to place ourselves in contradiction with it, under pain of annihilating all cognition.
If we place ourselves in the initial moment, we shall not know how to explain the development of this activity; for, if it can only know what it has made, what is it to understand in the first moment before it has made any thing?
That which is immediately present to us is the facts of consciousness; by them we place ourselves in communication with what is distinct from us.
But when we place ourselves in their point of view, we see that they readily allow themselves to be hurried along by the desire of success.
We recognize it only when we place ourselves in intuition in order to go from intuition to the intellect, for from the intellect we shall never pass to intuition.
But, then, it is within the evolutionary movement that we place ourselves, in order to follow it to its present results, instead of recomposing these results artificially with fragments of themselves.
We perceive it when we place ourselves in duration in order to go from that duration to moments, instead of starting from moments in order to bind them again and to construct duration.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "place ourselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
