How To Use Philosophic In A Sentence

This has caused many theoreticians to adopt a philosophical approach that mirrors the ideas of Plato.
In contemporary philosophical language these would be the doctrines of hylozoism and animism.
Thus, in the Western philosophical tradition, occasionalists in the proper sense of the term emerge in earnest in the wake of RenÃ© Descartes (1596 “ 1650) in the form of “Cartesian occasionalists”. Occasionalism
From the philosophical point of view the principles relate to the problem of how to combine necessity and freedom.
Behind the apparent cross-party consensus on social mobility lie two profound philosophical differences. Times, Sunday Times

His experience there exemplifies what he says regarding the need to be philosophical about the photographs that you miss.
For that matter, why does a would-be bedroom farce also try to utter philosophic profundities?
Authors customarily used the commentary format not only to expound the works of Aristotle, but also as a vehicle for original philosophical theorizing.
I know that one of the philosophical underpinnings of Creative Commons and other Open Content Licensing models is to not discriminate, which is why they are available to anyone. Lessig's use of Flickr photos: is Creative Commons really a community?
Logical Atomism is one important aspect of B. Russell's philosophical thoughts since 1899 and early L.
With the benefit of hindsight, I prefer to be philosophical about my experience.
Such a conclusion is as philosophically bizarre as it is textually unwarranted.
And he covers what could be fairly abstruse philosophical questions in a remarkably clear and simple way.
From this perspective, the turn to an ontology of the psyche is the philosophical move that retains the space for metaphysical enchantment in an age of disenchantment. Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
Philosophical theology with particular reference to Tillich.
The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values.
The political and philosophical failure of recent years has been to deny that relationship. Times, Sunday Times
It's a classic noir detective tale but as well as a crime to be solved there's a philosophical mystery in the making.
Yet while Taoist teachings were unsystematic and emphasized quietism and inspiration, Buddhism offered a systematic philosophical framework and a tradition of textual scholarship.
In order to enhance ideological education it is of much importance to restructure a life philosophical system and to achieve the integration of ideological education with behavioral accomplishment.
It is very idealistically that we can all be liberated that comes from the philosophical understanding of life itself. Stacey Nemour: Shaolin Kung Fu: An Interview With Abbot Shi Yongxin
For purposes of philosophical self-understanding, however, it is important to be clear that a phenomenon such as addiction can present different kinds of obstacles in the way of our acting well.
The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical.
Yet one cannot be too strict in policing the boundaries between these two levels, for in drawing attention to the poetics of articulation, "Mont Blanc" suggests that philosophical argument inevitably relies on representations of an embodied "I," narrative exempla, privileged metaphors, and repeated terms. Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'
Instead, the philosophical bits are tacked on in set speeches - much like in student essays, really.
His philosophical musings were a complete departure from the cynical lies of his predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
Natural theology settled philosophical foundation of modern science in the aspects as ontology, epistemology, methodology. Actually it is "prior science" of modern science.
He was an active member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool from 1837 onwards and served as its treasurer.
the movement is philosophically indebted to Rousseau
Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
The philosophical doctrine that every event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of antecedents that are independent of the human will.
And yet, he replied to each one with clarity, in a tone that still hints of a German accent but has been "internationalized," even if not delving into esoteric designer-speak or tech-talk, opting instead for philosophical statements that more people could relate to. Latest News
We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored.
Transcendental philosophy started with Descartess philosophical principle which makes the world objective in subjectivity with "transcendental self" as the Archimedess point.
He did not think of philosophic reason either as a mere handmaid to religion or as a dangerous whore out to seduce the mind into supposing that it could attain its supreme end without God's help and grace.
This is the name given to the philosophical and theological system or school named after John Duns Scotus.
It is this period of eclecticism which is reflected for us in the philosophical writings of Cicero. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
The Greek philosophical school known as the Stoics used the term to denote the 'world soul', the underlying principle that was thought to account for the order in the universe. Archive 2009-06-01
While my view of the moral landscape can be classed as "consequentialist," this term comes with fair amount of philosophical baggage, and there are many traditional quibbles with consequentialism that do not apply to my account of morality. Sam Harris: Toward a Science of Morality
China has always been a country which regards entity as more important than procedures with the belief in the philosophical theory of pragmatism as seen in the saying that "all's well that ends well.
The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.
The debate was getting too philosophical for me.
She is certain that cruelty could never be apprehended from the Gentleman to whom this is addressed; and the poor animal would have suffered more as the victim of domestic economy, than of philosophical curiosity. Poems
He was the first to use this word philosophically. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
The entry marks a moment when Darwin glimpsed the enormous philosophical consequences of what he was working out. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
'I'm sure,' added Mrs. Smith in a more philosophic tone, and as a terminative speech, 'if there'd been so much trouble to get a husband in my time as there is in these days -- when you must make a god-almighty of A Pair of Blue Eyes
It is a spiritual ingredient, composed, when one comes to analyse it, of two chemical elements; of what might be called aesthetic egoism and of what we know as philosophic scepticism. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
Veblen was not only a famous economist and sociologist in the 20th century but also a rationalistic representative in the philosophical genres of higher education.
He was by nature a philosophical person.
So let us for once be more cautious, let us be "unphilosophical": let us say that in all willing there is firstly a plurality of sensations, namely, the sensation of the condition "AWAY FROM Beyond Good and Evil
This quotation comes from a conversation between the artist and Sarah Martin in the exhibition catalog, which is essential to understanding the intent of the show—excepting the philosophically naïve yet slightly condescending initial essay, "Re-imagining Reality" by Sîan Ede. An Eruption in Margate
The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
Shakspeare, inspired, as it might seem, with all knowledge, here uses the word 'causeless' in its strict philosophical sense; -- cause being truly predicable only of 'phenomena', that is, things natural, and not of 'noumena', or things supernatural. Literary Remains, Volume 2
Philosophical constructs like mind-body dualism are explained as the transfer of master/servant relations into the domain of abstract thought.
Philosophically, pluralism rests on the assumption that ultimate reality is many, multiple, that is, more than one or two.
InfoQ: PBE is an example of Model-driven development (MDD) mostly as a result of using the engineering metaphor as a philosophical base.
It was a modern version of the Faust theme, but comic, not philosophical, with apologies to Goethe and Marlowe. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
One form of philosophical modernism is a radical self-reflexivity and self legislation that stands against heteronomy.
The Philosophical Transactions, * [629] in the last century contain accounts of Cesarean section performed by an ignorant butcher and also by a midwife; and there are many records of the celebrated case performed by Jacob Nüfer, a cattle gelder, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The separation between the disciplines of biology and cosmology may be philosophically regrettable but it is built into the structure of modern science. Infinite in All Directions
Thomas Hobbes is a highly controversial scholar in philosophical history.
This ancient Middle Eastern source furnished the basis for classical Greek medical and philosophical theories of hysteria.
She also publishes an independent webzine, The Philosophical Mother, where she often comments on motherhood and pop culture.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. Jonathan Swift
… there is no need to ask for an “operational” test for God, it is a retrodictive philosophical argument. Please Tell Me What “God” Means
She was as alien as a far-journeyer from some other star, and no hint could she nor all the countryside give me of what forms of living, what heats of feeling, or rules of philosophic contemplation actuated her in all that she had been and was. SAMUEL
French agricultural naturalists, whose perspective was both continental and philosophic, treated the British inquiry with careful condescension.
Or the business interests that provide campaign cash and are more philosophically in tune with the congressional leadership?
In his philosophical system, human as subject experienced stages such as birth and death.
Socrates'is a philosophical citizenship, relying on one's own powers of independent reason and judgment.
In a philosophical mood he would describe his loneliness as an occupational hazard.
Influenced by both Anglo-Saxon and German philosophical tradition, Wittgenstein strove to find a refuge for 'Mystical Field ' through the method of language analysis in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
In its widest sense the term designates not only the sacred texts, but also the voluminous theological and philosophical literature attached thereto, the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
More than any other man he laid the foundations of the Byzantine literary and philosophical renascence of the 12th cent.
The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain. 2009 September | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
And his philosophical musings influenced a much later, left-handed thinker: German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche.
Yet these aren't dispensable technicalities or bits of mere philosophical jargon; they're essential to any useful discussion of ethics.
Political and philosophical differences pose a further barrier to any International union movement. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
The philosophy of science deals with philosophical issues that arise in connection with science.
On both philosophical and emotional grounds, I hate paternalism in government; and I don't like maternalism in government any better, especially given that, in a number of respects, America is gradually evolving into a gynocracy anyhow. My political provocation
As objects well known in the philosophical treatises (bstan-bcos-la grags-pa), sensibilia are thus the smallest spatial units of physical phenomena that are perceptible by the senses in one moment. Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Non-Gelug Presentation
If such a result can be arrived at by the logical and philosophical conception of a gravitative Aether, then the three Rules of Philosophy are fully satisfied, and the assumption of a gravitative Aether is warranted on a strictly philosophical basis. Aether and Gravitation
He is also a skilled populariser who can convey philosophical ideas in clear, nontechnical language. Times, Sunday Times
The edition of Leibniz's philosophical works in Latin and French, published by Rudolph Erich Raspe (Leibniz 1765; cf. Hallo 1934) contained some up to then unpublished letters and six pieces from the unpublished papers, of which two, “Difficultates quaedam logicae” and “Historia et commendatio linguae charactericae”, are relevant to logic. Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic
Specifically, it might inspire them to revisit the politically arduous and philosophically complex struggle whereby modern liberalism overcame the sanguinary terror of religious conflict in post-Reformation Europe.
Leopoldina in Halle - persuaded the philosophical faculty in Konrad Lorenz - Autobiography
On the other hand, Indian and Western philosophical studies should be pursued independently using idioms, language, and metaphors appropriate to the investigations.
This paper is meant to confirm the philosophical implications of Zhuang Zi's ideal of "making all things equal" through conducting a contextual analysis of the text of Zhuang Zi.
It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such a one more agreeable and interesting. Archive 2010-01-01
(02 / 19 / 2008) Careful design of protected areas to safeguard key "refugia" and allow for migration can increase the resilience of Amazon biodiversity to climate change, report researchers writing in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Tuna may go the way of cod: a collapsed fishery Mongabay.com News
Such an approach seemed questionable on both philosophical and theological grounds. Times, Sunday Times
It should because Bush & Co. are philosophically and authentically uneager to crack down on their corporate cash base. Mark Green: Laissez Isn't Fair
Yorkshire coach Wayne Clark is philosophical about the disappointing start and confident that his team will soon turn the corner.
Only die-hards or those of a philosophical cast of mind fail to see the futility of that.
So built into the translation process was a kind of orality that would be uncommon to most formal written Chinese, but that would be part of both the Indian philosophical tradition since a sutra is a lecture and the informal tradition of philosophical discussion and poetry-writing that was an important part of the social lives of Chinese intellectuals. Languagehat.com: WRITTEN VERNACULARS IN ASIA.
One can imagine that it was the great Earl or Sir Philip Sidney that gave his imagination its moral and practical turn [Edmund Spencer's now], and one imagines him seeking from philosophical men, who distrust instinct because it disturbs contemplation, and from practical men who distrust everything they cannot use in the routine of immediate events, that impulse and method of creation that can only be learned with surety from the technical criticism of poets, and from the excitement of some movement in the artistic life. from → Quotations As Yeats Put it: « Unknowing
M. Cuvier suspects that I may have mistaken for it the animal called by naturalists the dugong, and vulgarly the sea-cow, which will be hereafter mentioned; and it would indeed be a grievous error to mistake for a beast with four legs, a fish with two pectoral fins serving the purposes of feet; but, independently of the authority I have stated, the kuda ayer, or river-horse, is familiarly known to the natives, as is also the duyong (from which M.layan word the dugong of naturalists has been corrupted); and I have only to add that, in a register given by the Philosophical Society of Batavia in the first The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
That at least is the doctrine of Gibbon; but perhaps it would not be found altogether able to sustain itself against a closer and philosophic examination of the true elements involved in the idea of declension as applied to political bodies. The Caesars
In discussing means and ends, as well as facts and values, Simon (1947) is forthcoming concerning his own (logical positivist) philosophical perspective.
In these papers, where he was largely concerned with general philosophical problems of time and space, he adopted a quixotic standpoint in his attempt to refute the theory as being logically untenable.
He was equally philosophical about the growing personal criticism that he received.
The Apollonian and Dionysian is a philosophical and literary concept based on parts of ancient Greek mythology. Apollonian and Dionysian Themes « Write Anything
The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan.
This treatise is based on the analysis of the philosophical fundamental of Iconology which has been scrutinized in purpose on an open critical platform of Visual Culture.
Competitive ferocity and a capacity to be philosophical must coexist in the nature of the jump jockey. Times, Sunday Times
There's a spiritual and philosophical subtext to the design of the buildings which goes so far as to embrace geomancy, human biology, cosmology and lines of force.
Philosophically, the term suggests an organic wholeness in stark opposition to the age of mechanical reproduction.
He was not the first to publish a detailed survey of architecture, but his treatise was written in comprehensible language, relatively unencumbered by philosophical verbiage and richly detailed with how-to instruction. Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum
On this I will defend the use of hypothetical philosophical thought experiments.
He also wrote a number of shorter, independent treatises on controversial philosophical topics, such as the Tractatus de relationibus [Treatise on Relations], Tractatus de universalibus [Treatise on Universals], Tractatus de consequentiis [Treatise on Consequences], and Quaestio de puncto [Question on Points]. John Buridan
The paper is written in the character of a travelling and philosophical American, who pours forth his thoughts on the opera; the topics being the deterioration of music as an art, the small beneficial result that follows so much outlay and such a combination of artistical skill, the amount of training bestowed on the singers and dancers, greater than that which produces great men, and the company before the curtain, together with reflections thereanent. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
Actually, mythology was only set up by ancient sages to help explain the very complicated Hindu philosophy in an unphilosophical way.
Basically a wry comedy, it has serious overtones and philosophical implications.
This is not a pedigree that predisposes him to accept the necessary limits of the philosophical life. Human, All Too Human
Mask's interanimation of the material and the ideational, of grit and philosophically-oriented intellection -- results in stanzas notably more literary and poetic than Wolfenstein's. Kaufman, Notes- _Reading Shelley's Interventionist Poetry, 1819-1820_ - Romantic Circles Praxis Series
For those entering the workforce, acquisitiveness and competition too frequently eclipse other philosophical and religious values, including that of the greater good.
Philosophical colloquies can be presented in their own right or embedded in historical or fictional narratives. The Times Literary Supplement
Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are trying to say, so maybe try again, Bradford? ou are able to explain things mechanistically but if the underlying nature of reality does not lend itself to this approach you will not only not get answers, you will build a philosophical edifice which is debilitating to the human spirit. About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man
What philosophical pearl did he leave for history?
It culminates in an ethical characterology or philosophical anthropology in which passion and reason are properly ordered by sheer force of individual volition. Asthmatic
Fengxiang clay sculpture receives in the tradition, is demonstrating sincere history culture in the Guanzhong area, and contains many esthetic ideals, the philosophic thinking and the modern value.
I suggest that it is humanism - both religious and secular - that is the dominant philosophical adversary.
He unfortunately relies on philosophical categories that imply the debilitating skepticism he argues is incompatible with true liberalism.
The philosophical doctrine that every event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of antecedents that are independent of the human will.
The use of category theory for logical and philosophical studies is already well underway.
He accepted the verdict philosophically.
The phenomenon of philosophical phenomenology is the being of beings or entities.
Indeed, as befitted a movement confined to the intelli - gentsia and represented by a pleiad of outstanding intellectuals, philosophical doubt played a greater part Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Scholars have suggested that because the edicts say nothing about the philosophical aspects of Buddhism, Asoka had a simplistic and naive understanding of the Dhamma.
The closest guideline is a Chicago Manual of Style stipulation that in philosophical and linguistic texts certain terms might be enclosed in single quote marks (14th edition, 6.67 and 6.74). Archive 2008-09-01
This broader problem touched on such philosophical conundrums as who we are and what our place is in the universe.
But the botanist that is desirous of wiping off this aspersion should be by no means content with a list of names; he should study plants philosophically, should investigate the laws of vegetation, should examine the powers and virtues of efficacious herbs, should promote their cultivation; and graft the gardener, the planter, and the husbandman, on the phytologist. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
Dynamism in general may be adapted to and modified by such philosophical systems as determinism or freedom, substantialism or phenomenalism, idealism or realism, monism or theism, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Roy used the philosophical ideas found in the earliest Hindu scriptures to criticize the polytheism and some of the practices of popular Hinduism, such as sati.
He moves from the playful to the political, the complex to the simple, the physical to the philosophical and all with a beguiling lightness of touch. Times, Sunday Times
Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us.
At the same time, the incident showed his liability to argue from passion and personal animus to philosophical or political generality.
James Madison is known as the tribune of open government and the philosophical father of the Freedom of Information Act.
The proprietress is a little tight, quite relaxed, and slightly philosophical, leaning against Marlowe, who sits on a stack of Britannicas beside her, watching the window. Archive 2008-05-01
Clearly the proliferation of little municipal governments runs counter to this philosophical wisdom and practical reality.
I suggest that it is humanism - both religious and secular - that is the dominant philosophical adversary.
Herbart's moral education theory is based on his psychological and philosophical ideas.
Schopenhauer was the high priest of philosophical pessimism.
But the treatment is for the philosophical problem, not for the philosopher caught in its trammels. The Times Literary Supplement
Miller is interested in the philosophical, social and metaphorical implications that the Bigfoot creature represents.
This simple reality is hidden from view by early philosophical and theological anticipations of mass schooling in various writings about social order and human nature.
Consider whereabout thou art in Cebes's [25] table, or that old philosophical pinax [26] of the life of man: whether thou art yet in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entred the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way, which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life. Christian Morals
We therefore continually try to correct one philosophical perspective about it against another.
Lewis has grown philosophical about life.
Then, in what amounts to a stunning yet unheralded philosophical inversion, throngs of ecclesiastics and scholars began to declare that it was the laws of physics themselves that served as proof of the wisdom and power of God.
Nevertheless, varied combinations of ancient philosophical essentialism and nineteenth-century scientific racialism linger to this day in American folk concepts of race.
It is this group which specifically prefers Alberta locations, thus reinforcing the duality and solidifying the philosophical divide.
Before the appendices he includes a jokey bit of philosophical dialectic.
By the second century AD, the Lyceum was again a flourishing center of philosophical activity.
Among others to take a keen interest in the gymnosophists was Pyrrho, founder of the philosophical school known as the Sceptics.
Under such reasoning it has become the essential idea of society and remains so still, notwithstanding the perversion of philosophical terms consequent upon later confusion of man with beast, stock, and stone. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Alternatively, of course, Winter knew everything, was philosophic about it, and Wrench was too obtuse to see. DARE CALL IT TREASON
And, in fact, the few who since the revival of letters have deserted Christianity for what they called philosophic heathenism, have in almost every case sympathised, not with the excellences, but with the worst vices of the Greek and Literary and General Lectures and Essays
Anonymous talks about things like Link killing a tektite and how nothing philosophically significant should be extracted from such things. Response to Gamers and Others Concerning the Zelda Book
The author showed again her utter fearlessness when it comes to attacking the big subjects and her determination to bring philosophical discussions into the realm of highly readable and entertaining literature.
A close link between phenomenology and hermeneutics has resulted in the interchangeable use of the terms; however, philosophical beliefs differ among phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers.
At first glance, it is a dazzling performance by a philosophical virtuoso at the height of his powers. Christianity Today
It was a shape which inspired all sorts of philosophical and scientific speculations (Kepler's cosmography, the carbon atom, Buckminster Fuller's geodesic structures ...), and the art department constructed models of various sizes which were set in African and lunar landscapes. Tin
Alvin Plantinga defines "fideism" as "the exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone, accompanied by a consequent disparagement of reason and utilized especially in the pursuit of philosophical or religious truth. Sandwalk
Belief is the appropriate term, because Incognito isn't precisely an examination of neuroanatomy or neurological case histories; nor is it an exploration of the philosophical struggle involved in explaining the relationship between brain and mind. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review
The apes, saturated and peaceful, lived in sophisticated playfulness, or caught fleas in philosophic contemplation; the Neanderthaler trampled gloomily through the world, banging around with clubs. Autumn
She does not often provide explicit details about how such a " philosophical pragmatism " might benefit feminism.
Hamilton and I've got to say the long passages where they sit around talking about sex ends up edging closer and closer to the long philosophical passages in the Marquis de Sade, where everyone's just sitting around naked talking and sipping hot chocolate with cantharides in it in preparation for the next bout of sexual excess. Cat Rambo
The philosophical reflection and profoundly cultural basis help people purify the souls and understand the meaning of life in the course of construction of visual literacy.
Front and center are philosophical problems brought up by the term "spirit. Valerie Tarico: Should Freethinkers Shun Or Claim The Language Of Spirituality?
Philosophically as well as poetically his Platonism was a muddied stream. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
This aesthetic can obscure Formal art appreciation as it often resorts to exclusivist ideas about painting and sculpture which are highly philosophical.
But don't let the philosophically-alluding title misconstrue your perceptions of what Gaming Nexus
The creative anarchy of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate groupware software.
Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas.
Between these two books, with their rather different views of disaster, one can obtain a surprisingly broad political education into the philosophical unpinning of global corporate capitalism and its perennial alternative, cooperative civic society. Dale Pendell: The Disaster Twin-Pak, Plus Zeitoun
I should also tell my own philosophical counter-argument to the argument I've presented here: It's all about consciousness, whether or not it's epiphenomenal. Aiguy's Computer
You don't persuade them with a philosophical argument. Christianity Today
And I hope that the effort required to extract a positive philosophical position from her letters has borne out this claim.
It's an airy-fairy philosophical concept that even the experts can't satisfactorily define.
I do find it's good practice to be politely skeptical about unsupported historical claims that happen to align themselves with the claimer's philosophical or political ends.
Less trammelled by philosophical questions, their lives seemed to go better. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly it is the ambition of most philosophical systems to resolve the blooming confusion of the world into consonance.
A contemplative discourse , usually on a religious or philosophical subject.
Angst - an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
It is not only a philosophical question. Times, Sunday Times
The idea of a philosophical exposition of the human passions was by no means new.
Nevertheless, some general, if brief, discussion of some of the more directly relevant philosophical issues may help clarify matters.
When Mr Major waxes philosophical, he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism.
“dialectical materialism” by Plekhanov — became the philosophical foundation of what from the 1890's on - wards was very generally described as “Marxism”; the term encompassing at one and the same time the Dictionary of the History of Ideas
In this case, Collins has a gentle, easygoing manner that makes Murrell's revelations and philosophical musings seem natural and unforced.
And he's not a conservative, or a liberal, or a maverick, or a Hutterite, or anything much, philosophically, one way or the other. McCain's Doctors: No Recurrence Of Cancer
In fact, his was a different kind of mind with an aptitude more for philosophical thoughts and concepts than for literary pursuits.
And if you really want to get philosophical, bring a pocket dictionary.
It is a different phenomenon from philosophical or metaphysical essentialism.
If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Economics likes to present itself as a savvy combination of maths and philosophical science. Times, Sunday Times
He was, you might say, a poet of the uncommonplace: a philosopher of the unphilosophical, a historian of the unhistorical and a politician of the unpolitical.
She is absurdly philosophical about it - accepting it as one of God's lessons for her.
The four-day opening ceremony was packed with havans, aratis, kirtans, bhajans, as well as spiritual and philosophical discourses.

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