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  • The Ego grasps that it exists within a world of Thous, that is, within a world of other Egos similar to itself.

    Hermann Weyl Bell, John L. 2009

  • If each man can be likened to a community of his internalized "Thous," logically think of the outcome of many men struggling together supposedly for a common purpose.

    Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson

  • While internalizing these and subsequent "Thous" as part of his "I," his knowing place, paradoxically, he sorts out who he is, and who and what is other than himself.

    Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson

  • January 22nd, 2010 at 2: 34 pm rat618 says: of course the Republicans are also on shaky ground with “Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery” as well as “Thous Shall Not Steal”.

    Think Progress » Company will stop putting biblical references on guns after Petraeus expresses ‘serious concern.’ 2010

  • Indeed, according to Weyl, it is not strictly necessary for the Ego to postulate the existence of such a world, even given the existence of a world of Thous:

    Hermann Weyl Bell, John L. 2009

  • "Thou shalt not take the life of another human being," is not a categorical imperative, but "Thous shalt not commit murder," is.

    The Rule of Law (and the DCCC) 2007

  • Nor does it explain how one can move from a personalist model of I-Thou to the notion of solidarity with a community of many “Thous” to whom the I stands in no immediate relationship and whose well-being may not be reconcilable with mine.

    Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Harvey, Van A. 2007

  • Thous strokedst me, and madest much of me, wouldst give me

    Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

  • Behold how I have used the senses, the primary conceptions which Thous gavest me.

    The Golden Sayings of Epictetus circa 55-135 AD Epictetus

  • From the American Westerner who buys an Encyclopædia in parts, and finds in it all that he requires of instruction and amusement, to the princely founders of libraries -- the Spencers and Parkers, the De Thous, the

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

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