Pure thought is an English translation of an expression originally attributed to Kant and Hegel. Their usage of the German counterpart revolved around the question of whether pure thought could exist without an object or some material. Today, more popular uses exist. The usage here is that pure thought is simply a process, another term for thought experiment.
Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or thought:
“He gathers deeds
In the pure air, the agent
Of their factual excesses.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)