Positing Synonyms

Positing Sentence Examples

• 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.