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Philosophical meaning
Of, or pertaining to, philosophy. | Rational; analytic or critically minded; thoughtful. | Detached, calm, stoic.
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A British practitioner of polyamory also quoted in the article expressed the opposite opinion. citation Philosophical aspects As with many non-traditional life choices, there is considerable active discussion about philosophical approaches to polyamory.
According to Whitehead, an actual entity must earn its philosophical status of fundamental ontological priority by satisfying several philosophical criteria, as follows.
Although theologian George Florovsky described Dostoyevsky as a "philosophical problem", because it is unknown whether Dostoyevsky believed in what he wrote, many philosophical ideas are found in books such as A Writer's Diary and The Brothers Karamazov.
As a result of traditional specialized philosophical peculiarities of language, with translations between ancient Greek, Latin, and English, the word 'cause' is nowadays in specialized philosophical writings used to label Aristotle's four kinds.
Between 200 BCE–500 CE philosophical schools of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism were taking form and a coherent philosophical system of yoga began to emerge.
For example, if philosophical physicalism is true, a physical TOE will coincide with a philosophical theory of everything.
Gracia, J.G. and Noone, T.B., A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, London 2003, p.35 Methods main Philosophical method (or philosophical methodology) is the study of how to do philosophy.
He and his colleagues founded the 'Aberdeen Philosophical Society' which was popularly known as the 'Wise Club' (a literary-philosophical association).
He suggested philosophical errors arose from confusions about the nature of philosophical inquiry.
It was respectfully received by the public and the philosophical community, but all by that time realized that Bergson's days as a philosophical luminary were past.
One claim is that the empirical data gathered by experimental philosophers can have an indirect effect on philosophical questions by allowing for a better understanding of the underlying psychological processes which lead to philosophical intuitions.
Philosophical analysis (from Greek Φιλοσοφική ανάλυση main) is a general term for techniques typically used by philosophers in the analytic tradition that involve "breaking down" (i.e. analyzing) philosophical issues.
Philosophical considerations The philosophical antecedents and ramifications of functional decomposition are quite broad, as functional decomposition in one guise or another underlies all of modern science.
Philosophical grounds Process theology rejects unlimited omnipotence on a philosophical basis, arguing that omnipotence as classically understood would be less than perfect, and is therefore incompatible with the idea of a perfect deity.
Philosophical implications of VR are discussed in books, including Philip Zhai 's Get Real: A Philosophical Adventure in Virtual Reality (1998) and Digital Sensations: Space, Identity and Embodiment in Virtual Reality (1999), written by Ken Hillis.
Philosophical skepticism main In philosophical skepticism, pyrrhonism is a position that refrains from making truth claims.
These included treatises on the prophets (whom he viewed as "inspired philosophers"), and also on various scientific and philosophical interpretations of the Quran, such as how Quranic cosmology corresponds to his own philosophical system.
The work proceeds rationally through a lexicon of philosophical terms to a summary of higher philosophical topics, in 14 chapters corresponding to Maimonides's birthdate of 14 Nissan.
And Simpkins’ holy-bible thumper feels almost as phony, an artificial means to frame Charlie’s homosexuality and leper-like status within a larger philosophical context.
At 75, he has gone from the physical to the philosophical.