That breadth of outlook that distinguishes the philosophic mind. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But the interest is not what is commonly called philosophic, it is personal. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
But the interest is not what is commonly called philosophic; it is personal. From Wordnik.com. [On the Benefits of Reading] Reference
However, the main philosophic foils he sets up are really the sillier philosophers of Europe such as Hegel and Heidegger. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: Anathem by Neal Stephenson | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference
The term "ideal" has been cheapened by sentimental popular use, and by use in philosophic discourse for apologetic purposes to disguise discords and cruelties in existence. From Wordnik.com. [John Dewey's *Art as Experience*] Reference
Emerson labels the philosophic turn "subjectiveness.". From Wordnik.com. [So Many Books] Reference
Shotaye was in what we should call a philosophic mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Delight Makers] Reference
There has been a great deal of what I have called philosophic pharisaism. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
The solution of a philosophic question is called a philosophic doctrine or theory. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
You’re making the mistake that everyone makes, starting with Plato: that Socrates was engaged in philosophic debate in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Old School] Reference
Thus fanaticism though its immediate results are more fatal than those of what is now called the philosophic mind, is much less fatal in its after effects. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
The next part will be more "philosophic" since it deals with the cause instead of the consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Phrack Issue #63 (The Lost Circle of Hackers)] Reference
In the derogatory sense he is more "philosophic" than Aristotle. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Critic] Reference
Immediately my dishpan began to glow with a kind of philosophic halo!. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Bookshop] Reference
Wyclif gave some kind of philosophic basis to this point of view in his doctrine of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Even Flaubert himself makes a kind of philosophic attitude out of his loathing for the common-place. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
There was a whole attitude, a kind of philosophic attitude that the market would take care of itself. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
There are two main realities that unite all "philosophic" conservatives, be they Republicans or Democrats in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
About twenty years later, another remarkable man, Volney, broaches the subject in what was then known as the "philosophic" spirit. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
Metaphysics ” which is also a kind of philosophic knowing ” is concerned with purely intelligible being. From Wordnik.com. [Jacques Maritain] Reference
The only recourse of the human mind in such cases is in a kind of philosophic fortitude, the calm result of time, reason and reflection. ". From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference
Riding down the highway, the younger man turned philosophic. From Wordnik.com. [The Final Days And Nights Of A Gay Martyr] Reference
But the subtext of the rejection was philosophic, not economic. From Wordnik.com. [The European Project Sags] Reference
For philosophic reasons, Democrats wish the bill would become law. From Wordnik.com. [Sleepwalking Toward DD-Day] Reference
There is a minor logical quibble here, and a major philosophic one. From Wordnik.com. [African Dream] Reference
It thus represents a fulfilment of Thomas Reid's philosophic demand. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
He supported himself on the one hand by the philosophic society to be met at. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Dr. HOLMES: (Reading) The well-taught, philosophic mind to all compassion gives. From Wordnik.com. [A Mouse Asks for Mercy] Reference
It appeared in the form of Hume's philosophic system, the outcome of which was universal scepticism. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In fact, to one who looked at it with a philosophic mind, an air of squalor might possibly have been detected. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Thomas Reid's philosophic discovery, its significance for the overcoming of the onlooker-standpoint in science. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Even the humblest human beings, he observes, are naturally philosophic, asking themselves such questions as "" Who am I?. From Wordnik.com. [Uniting Faith And Reason] Reference
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence -- the only real philosophic problem, therefore one of which these two philosophers alone are aware. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
We are in deep philosophic waters: Do many manifestations of a single phenomenon — exhibitionism — add up to something diverse?. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificence Democratized] Reference
First of all, the "War Requiem," of course, is a kind of thinking in a very philosophic way about the necessity of war and fighting. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Quasthoff: A Mighty 'Voice' Soars] Reference
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