unconditioned
Example Sentences
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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
Although it is thought by some scientists that the unconditioned and conditioned responses are identical, even Pavlov discovered that the saliva in the conditioned dogs had characteristic differences when compared to the unconditioned dog.
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
This connection is not “necessary” at all: such a connection must rather be rejected by that principle of the stern necessity of human actions, that is, the unconditioned non-freedom and non-responsibility of the will.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm