The first principle then must be that the Ego posits itself as the Ego, that Ego = Ego, a principle which is unconditioned both in form and matter, and therefore capable of standing absolutely first, of being the prius in a system.
Thus, in brief, Mr. Wright positsmuch teaching lost even from the oral tradition, as Dr.
The subject posits itself and is therefore itself object.
The fundamental synthesis of the theoretical Theory of Science is the proposition: the Ego posits itself as determined (limited) by the non-Ego.
Socratic method and the Platonic doctrine of ideas with the words, "Socrates posits the universal conceptions not as separate, individual substances, while Plato does this, and names them ideas.
Whenever the reasonposits any transcendental expressions in reference to the universe, i.
The Ego is, because it posits itself, and it only is, because this simple positing of itself is wholly by itself.
But, by means of this repelling, the one positsimmediately many ones.
It is not the reason which posits something external to itself, but only the false use of reason, which is connected with the incapacity of forgetting the subjective in itself.
The prius of all judgments is the Ego, which posits the connection of subject and predicate.
For its exclusion is the positing of its contrary, or it posits itself thereby as manifold.
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.
In thought one seeks the perfect truth, and posits it as at once the culmination of insight and the meaning of life.
With the Fichteans this distinction corresponds to the distinction in the system of Fichte between the active moral ego, and the nature which it posits to act upon.
In so far as we imagine an object as contingent, we are affected with no image of any other object which posits the existence of the first.
I call it indefinite because it cannot be determined by the nature itself of the existing thing nor by the efficient cause, which necessarily posits the existence of the thing but does not take it away.
I call individual things contingent in so far as we discover nothing, whilst we attend to their essence alone, which necessarily posits their existence or which necessarily excludes it.
This proposition is self-evident, for the definition of any given thing affirms and does not deny the existence of the thing; that is to say, it posits the essence of the thing and does not negate it.
Vico posits Deity and Providence, but proceeds nevertheless to study the laws of civilization inductively from its phenomena.
Our familiar phrase "the self-revelation of God" posits a power which can never for a moment be contained in all that is, but which may always be more clearly known as we follow His creative record from stage to ascending stage.
Those who believe this are not inclined to reason about it; in fact it is beyond reason save as reason posits a God who is equal to such a process and an order in which such results can be secured.
Russell in effect pointed out that apart from minor inexactitudes a determinate congruence relation is among the factors in nature which our sense-awareness posits for us.
Our sense-awareness posits for immediate discernment a certain whole, here called a 'duration'; thus a duration is a definite natural entity.
Sense-awareness posits durations as factors in nature but does not clearly enable thought to use it as distinguishing the separate individualities of the entities of an allied group of slightly differing durations.
The act by which we declare an object unreal therefore posits the existence of the real in general.
By a simple sic jubeo it posits a disorder which is an "absence of order.
It does not take Form as a snapshot of becoming; it posits Forms in the eternal; of this motionless eternity, then, duration and becoming are supposed to be only the degradation.
It installs itself in the immutable, it posits only Ideas.
Recognition lends the idea an independence which does not belong to it and in that way turns it into a thing, objectifies it, and posits it as substantial.
Impurity is directly willed when one posits an act intending to obtain from it unlawful venereal delectation, or perceives that such delectation is already present and consents to it.
It is for the ego who posits to judge what it should posit.
If it is striving to remember, it posits a past; if it is planning, it posits a future; if it is consciously eloquent, it posits an audience.
And thus the understanding positsits own nature as the causal, first, premundane existence--i.
However, analogy does not, as we have seen, carry us far in deciding upon the presence or absence of consciousness, or in determining the exact nature of the ends it posits even where we may suppose it to be present and conscious of ends.
It posits the assertion that nothing can ever become that which it was not from the beginning, an assertion utterly inconsistent with any theory of growth, whether evolutional or otherwise.
Thus God carries the world within himself while he thinks; he posits the same without himself or creates it, while he speaks.
In every essence there are two, but the two are the one essence itself, which posits itself by division.
This point necessarilyposits itself "ad infinitum;" it extends itself also in all directions, and necessarily in equal distances.
While the primary act itself posits, it does this indeed out of its own strength, and that which it posits is also none other than itself; it itself posits i.
It has arisen out of it, while, time being the act of positing, it is the posited; now as time posits from eternity, so is space also from eternity and in eternity.
Humanity posits its principles by turns, and sometimes at long intervals: never does it give them up in substance, although it destroys successively their expressions and formulas.
Thus, after having posited itself as logic, social economy, pursuing its work, posits itself as psychology.
But while the active posits its content in reality, this content yet remains the same; there is an activity present which is different from matter, although substance and activity are allied.
As that which posits measure and end, it is what absolutely determines the end—the immanent determination with which and in which freedom likewise brings itself into existence.
This is undoubtedly the power of the Notion, which posits the many, the separate, as the ideal, and that is also the force applied to the understanding when anything is placed before it.
For the soul is essentially actuality, a general determination which posits itself; not only formal activity, whose content comes from somewhere else.
In this, say the Stoics, the truth is contained; it is an object which is likewise thought, so that the thought that gives its assent is the ruling thought which posits the harmony of subject with content.
The ego posits itself, but reflection on the given shows that we must add that it posits also the non-ego.
The ego posits a limit (is theoretical) in order (as practical) to overcome it.
This posits further differences between the beautiful and the agreeable and the good.
This is possible only as it posits reality in itself only in part, and transfers to the non-ego so much as it does not posit in itself.
The same is true of the two modes of being which Schleiermacher posits as real and ideal over against the two factors in thought.
Footnote 1: Schelling terms his philosophy of nature dynamic atomism, since it posits pure intensities as the simple (atoms), from which qualities are to be explained.
The absolute is the universal unity of the world, which posits and sublates the individual as its modes.
The theoretical ego posits an object (Gegenstand) that the practical ego may experience resistance (Widerstand).
Education then posits this liberty in the pupil, for it presupposes in him a susceptibility of development,--educability, as we may call it.
The One, by an act of freedom, posits the many, and the many have their ground and unity in the Will and Thought of the One.
These it posits within itself with reference to one another, and calls the process 'seeing material objects in space.
In short, MacCulloch posits a planned, strictly regulated production without any over-production in order to prove that no crisis is possible in an unplanned private economy.
Thus, instead of bisecting the aggregate product into v and s, he posits a triple division: c, v, and s.
Principiis obsta--Today has furnished the exceptionally passionate initiative which Bain posits as needful for the acquisition of habits.
Why I'm blest if I'm a Materialist: The materialist posits an X for his ultimate principle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
