This relativity is by Protagoras expressed in a way which seems to us in some measure trivial, and belongs to the first beginnings of reflective thought.
We see that Protagoras possesses great powers of reflective thought, and indeed reflection on consciousness came to consciousness with Protagoras.
The Especial Importance of Historical Studies to Reflective Thought.
Of this world of reflective thought I shall say just a word in what follows.
The sciences which are grouped together as philosophical are those in which we are forced back upon the problems of reflective thought, and cannot simply put them aside.
Thus far, as the last quotation clearly indicates, there is no question of reflective thought, and hence no question of logical theory.
I still believe (what I believed when I wrote the essays) that under the influence of idealism valuable analyses and formulations of the work of reflective thought, in its relation to securing knowledge of objects, were executed.
Doubt and skepticism may mingle with reflective thought, but beneath reflection there is still spontaneity.
This inspired statement of the order in which the conception of God as a determinate mode of thought is evolved in the human mind is exactly verified by the history of reflective thought as presented in Greek philosophy.
The intelligent reader scarce needs to be reminded that this is the conclusion reached by reflective thoughtin that best and fullest exhibition of it which is found in Greek philosophy.
It is a peculiar mixture of the coincident and the coherent which sets the peculiar problem of reflective thought.
The fact is we have here a typical instance of the transition from intuition to reflective thought.
Reflective thought goes to work on the material thus provided, and weaves certain portions of it into the structure of systematised knowledge.
It is deeply significant to note that, at the very dawn of reflective thought, a conviction of the essential sameness of all existence seized upon the minds of the fathers of Western philosophy, and dominated their speculations.
It defines the limits and aims of conceptual systems; it marks out the limits, aims, and tests of reflective thought in general.
The completed theory of knowledge depends for its validity upon the distinction thus established between knowing (as reflective thought) and the practical attitudes of life.
The position of conscious, or reflective thought, in Dewey's scheme, is especially interesting.
Theory is an instrument to be used in connection with that special activity, reflective thought, the general aim of which is the furtherance of the practical ends of life.
Sidenote: Reflective thought defined] Men thought the world was flat until Columbus thought it to be round.
Thoughts that result in belief have an importance attached to them which leads to reflective thought, to conscious inquiry into the nature, conditions, and bearings of the belief.
Sidenote: Reflective thought is consecutive, not merely a sequence] In this sense, silly folk and dullards think.
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