unconditioned
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He will be unconditioned in what he chooses to interpret as Iranian surrender.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
After the conditioning period was finished, the dog would respond by salivating when the bell was rung, even when the unconditioned stimulus, the food, was absent.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
And they reply to injustice and repression not by resistance or retaliation, but with an utterly new, unconditioned response that leaves the reader lightheaded, transcending even that which we value as “freedom.”
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
“The voice is silence … it is a voice that is unconditioned, like a horse standing still.”
From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2017
The principle of sufficient reason is not, as all scholastic philosophy maintains, a veritas aeterna—that is to say, it does not possess an unconditioned validity before, outside of, and above the world.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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