I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak. From LearnThat.org. [Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Source: To Dmitry Grigorovich, October 9, 1888]
philosophical writing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
philosophical resignation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
ABOUT ONCE OR TWICE each year I sat Ian down for what I called a philosophical discussion about archaeology. From Wordnik.com. [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference
The suggestion won't end the debate over Dos Santos's roster decisions, which he called a philosophical matter. From Wordnik.com. [Dos Santos: NCC needs four teams, semifinals] Reference
As a long-term philosophical agnostic who also had a faith. From Wordnik.com. [Greta Christina's Blog] Reference
Sundhage puts the Olympic preparations in philosophical terms. From Wordnik.com. [Pressure's on for U.S. women come Olympics] Reference
He's redefining personhood and advancing certain philosophical standards. From Wordnik.com. [Defending Your Existence] Reference
Materialism is sometimes called philosophical or methodological naturalism. From Wordnik.com. [California Literary Review] Reference
Here I spend my declining years in philosophical contemplation and Good Works. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Kinda buried.] Reference
Although, there is a certain philosophical consistency there, come to think of it. From Wordnik.com. [in no way threatening to me] Reference
Teen biology being what it is, thus ended (quickly) my experiment in philosophical duality. From Wordnik.com. [Separating Art from Idiocy] Reference
As an exercise in philosophical structuring, there is nothing wrong with wondering about things that are not. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Monton] Reference
And until now, there was another fact that made the matter of no more than long - term philosophical interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind from The Sun]
Immediate luminousness, in short, philosophical reasonableness, and moral helpfulness are the only available criteria. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
This pertains essentially to epistemology and has therefore been the subject of lively debate in philosophical circles. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Black and white were often excluded in philosophical discussions of color but were always a component of the operational. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
In this way, Quemiset indicated his awareness of some ongoing controversies in philosophical and theoretical chemistry. 32. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
A further academic influence was the course in philosophical psychology that Kafka took in his senior year at the Gymnasium. From Wordnik.com. [Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites] Reference
Later the book bogs down in philosophical discussions about the nature of ugliness and a dissection of misleading facial expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Kipnis's "How to Become a Scandal," reviewed by Ellen McCarthy] Reference
Locke, in particular, ruined the term altogether in English philosophical literature, where it has ceased to possess any recognized definite meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
When I say that every true poet must have a philosophy, I do not mean that he must be what is commonly called a philosophical poet; from such we steer clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
Locke, however, as we have mentioned, is largely responsible for the confusion in respect to the term which has prevailed in English philosophical literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
You honestly think that quoting Dennett as saying "I do not believe in philosophical zombies" clears Dennett of the accusation of believing people are zombies?. From Wordnik.com. [Blurring the Line] Reference
"Ah! that, I dare say, is what one calls philosophical equanimity, though little to my humour. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Rover] Reference
The deluge is denied on so termed philosophical and scientific basis. From Wordnik.com. [History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the Centennial Celebration, Addresses, Sermons, Etc.] Reference
Well, theorizing called philosophical started in China before the Presocratics. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
In it he rejects in emphatic terms the philosophical and metaphysical ideas of Shushi. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference
As if that were not enough, Kissinger had what might be called a philosophical problem. From Wordnik.com. [Kissinger, Part Three] Reference
Grote was one of the small group of men who were, at that time, described as the philosophical Radicals. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)] Reference
Rand called her philosophical system Objectivism, and her rejection of the ethic of altruism left me cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News] Reference
Whether their doctrine may be called philosophical in a sense implying commendation is matter for discussion. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Such, too, was Pater's nature, and such his practical usefulness as what one might call a philosophical artist. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
Following this lower school of six years came the so-called philosophical course of three years (sometimes two). From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
St. Thomas's works may be classified as philosophical, theological, scriptural, and apologetic, or controversial. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
It isn't surprising that a leading neuroscientist would cloak a philosophical assertion in a scientific assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
They were very numerous, the taste for their art, which might be called philosophical criticism, being widespread in Attica. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Philosophy] Reference
The City Council voted 4-3 in October to fire Hansley over what the mayor and a council member called philosophical differences. From Wordnik.com. [dispatch.com: RSS]
At last, however, I found that the secret attraction was what the Czar termed the philosophical channel into which our conferences flowed. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
I am a philosophical realist because my world view and philosophical outlook is consistent with what has been termed philosophical realism. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
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