The transcendental philosopher has need of intellectual intuition in order to recognize the original object-positing actions of the ego, which remain concealed from common consciousness, sunk in the outcome of these acts.
It is rather true that with them both nature and spirit are alike the products of a third and higher term, which seeks to become spirit, and can accomplish this only by positing nature.
The ego must posit itself as an individual, and can accomplish this only by positing itself in a relation of right to other finite rational beings; without a thou, no I.
The nature of the ego consists in positing itself as existing.
The first proposition is so evidently true, and so universally admitted, that it was hardly worth positing for discussion.
Sensation is therefore a positing of want in the animal.
The act of positing is therefore at the same time also an act of negation.
The first form is not therefore a simple division of zero or the primary unity, but an antagonistic positing of itself, a becoming manifold.
The Positing of the Eternal in the sense in which it has been hitherto adopted, namely, as a realization of the same, is not merely an act of positing, not an indeterminate Positing, but an antagonism of itself.
Time is a polar positing of the primary act, and an endless repetition of this positing; through this originate individual things, whose succession is motion.
The whole of arithmetic is nothing else than a ceaseless act of positing and negating, of affirming and denying.
The whole of Arithmetic is nothing but the endless repetition of nothing, an endless positing and suppressing of nothing.
Solution is a positing of the solid under the internal polar form, but the poles of which have not yet separated.
Multiplicity or real infinity is, accordingly, nothing special or particular, but only an arbitrary repetition of the Ideal, an incessant positing of the idea.
The continuance of Being is a continuous positing of the Eternal, or of nothing, a ceaseless process of becoming real in that which is not.
Zero must be endlessly positing itself, for in every respect it is indefinite or unlimited, eternal.
It is consequently clear, how that time were a repeated positing of the Eternal itself: for the line is only a repeated self-positing of the point, of the nothing.
The most natural cause which has led pedagogy to the false path on which it now stands, is the criticism of the old order, the criticism for the sake of criticism, without positing new principles in the place of those criticized.
See the already cited introduction of Cerise, who solved the problem religiously by positing "a force which executes the plans of God without our knowledge or intervention" (p.
He thus practically introduced once for all into modern Christendom the fundamental dilemma of rationalistic ethics, not onlypositing the problem for his age, [337] but anticipating it as handled in later times.
But this return is just on the point of abandoning the content, and indeed of positing itself as abstract consciousness, without the content, and, as existent, opposed to it.
That is, since the Infinite is the principle, separation is the positing of a difference, i.
But a definite quality such as one of these is transient; matter determined as infinitude means the motion of positing definite forms, and again abolishing the separation.
If the ego be pure activity, free activity, it can only become aware of itself by positing some limit.
How this act of op-positing is possible and necessary, only becomes clear in the practical philosophy, and even there the inherent difficulty leads to a higher view.
Now, this op-positing of the Anstoss is the necessary condition of the practical ego, of the will.
There has been too much on one side of assumption as to early Oriental achievement; and too much tendency on the other to assume that the positing of an "influence" on the Greeks is a disparagement of the "Greek mind.
He was in some aspects the greatest brain of the ancient world; and he left it, at the close of the great Grecian period, without much faith in man, while positing for the modern world its vaguest conception of Deity.
Sarrante errs in positing democracy without noting that it is modified, adulterated, thwarted by the antagonism of classes and the economic preponderance of one class.
This negativing of limits by the imagination is the positing of omniscience as a divine power and reality.
First in the positing of what is other than himself, of the world, does God posit himself as God.
Only by positing this impurity, this darkness in God, by distinguishing in God himself a principle of light and a principle of darkness.
Feeling only is my existence; thinking is my non-existence, the negation of my individuality, the positing of the species; reason is the annihilation of personality.
The negation or annulling of sin is the negation of abstract moral rectitude,--the positing of love, mercy, sensuous life.
Where is the necessity of positing the same thing twice, of having it twice?
As long as that fleshly organ remains intact, the human mind sees its sense of sight externalized in the positing of its mental concepts about it as natural objects.
The positing of his mental concepts give him his sense of space.
They may state the goal to themselves in these terms; but this is, then, the statement of what is really a fictitious principle, a principle in positing which the patient does but justify himself and does not define his real motive.
If this little principle prove true, it would be easy to understand why certain parts of a dream are dim without going to the doubtful process of positing a repression.
Leroux commences by positing the necessity of property: "You wish to abolish property; but do you not see that thereby you would annihilate man and even the name of man?
I seem to be positing the principle of inequality: the reverse of this is the truth.
Even toward the close of the Middle Ages Marsilius of Padua was almost alone in positing the absolute supremacy of the State, says Gierke.
Logic has to do with the processes of thought; with the positing of premises and the drawing of the conclusion.
The result of this process then is that they are regarded as different, discerning them by their differences, and recognizing difference in essence by positing three things each of which exists apart.
Creation is God's positing an other which is not an other.
Stoicism is only this return of mind into itself, positingthe unity of itself and the object, and recognizing the harmony; but not the going forth again to the extension of the real knowledge of a content from itself.
Thought is the activity of the universal, not an abstraction, but the reflection into self and the positing of self that takes place in all conceptions.
For its exclusion is the positing of its contrary, or it posits itself thereby as manifold.
On the one side, the Ego is wholly suppressed by the non-Ego: there can be no positing of the Ego so far as the non-Ego is posited.
But this posited object is nothing other than the positing subject.
Through this positing of its faculties to a free activity, this rational being posits an external world of sense, for it can ascribe to itself no activity till it has posited an object towards which this activity may be directed.
The being of the Ego is thus seen in the positing of the Ego, and on the other hand, the Ego is enabled to posit simply by virtue of its being.
Positing of the apories or the philosophical preliminary questions, III.
Intuition, in general, is an equal positing of thought and being.
The Ego is, because it posits itself, and it only is, because this simple positing of itself is wholly by itself.
For, supposing you were to term all positing of a thing reality, you have thereby posited the thing with all its predicates in the conception of the subject and assumed its actual existence, and this you merely repeat in the predicate.
It is merely the positing of a thing, or of certain determinations in it.
The Absolute, positing itself, distinguishing itself from itself in unity with itself, is always like to itself, and takes up all the unrest of the phenomenal world back again into its simple essence.
Man necessarily positing God as absolute and infinite in his attributes, whereas he himself develops in a direction the inverse of this ideal, there is discord between the progress of man and what man conceives as God.
In positing its principles humanity, as if in obedience to a sovereign order, never goes backward.
In positing God, we necessarily posit also all the possible views of God, that is to say, the monads.
The universe is to be nothing but a flux of perceptions, or a will positing an object, or a tendency to feign that there is a world.
Most initial courses in economics begin by positing that economics is the science of the consumption, distribution, and production of wealth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "positing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
