Positing sentence example

If the ego be pure activity, free activity, it can only become aware of itself by positing some limit.

This construction, or self-determination, is what Fichte called positing (setzen).

Hence he united theoretical and practical reason, which Kant had separated, and both with will, which Kant had distinguished; for he held that the Ego, in positing the non-Ego, posits both its own limit and its own means to the end, duty, by its activity of thinking which requires will.

The pure ego is inferred from the fact that the non-ego is realized only in the act of the ego in positing it.

But within this scheme it unifies existing understanding rather than positing any new specific principles.

To this end, many enthusiasts and pundits are positing that, once again, the issue lies with AT&T and not with Apple.

The conclusion of his epistemology is that we start with ourselves positing subjective sensations - e.g.

In philosophy he found the basis for positing a, collective human will, revealing in its activities the materials for determining ethical laws.

Moreover, by positing the ontological primacy of potentiality, Cavendish is proposing a model which accommodates more highly differentiated, multi-dimensional thinking.