dephilosophize

Verb

dephilosophize (third-person singular simple present dephilosophizes, present participle dephilosophizing, simple past and past participle dephilosophized)

1. To remove philosophy (from): to replace abstract models with objective observation and concrete description.
   • If we dephilosophize the sciences - what is left - earth, air, and water.1984, Kathleen M. Wheeler, German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism
   • Furthermore, there has been a historical tendency in medicine to "dephilosophize" and shift from "armchair speculation" to the discovery of “a web of invariances that form the basis for today's control of Somatic man.".1995, Peter Augustine Lawler, A Question of Values: Johan Galtung's Peace Research, page 56
2. To make or become unphilosophical.
   • Opinion again, while improved, interesting as it may be to its holders, has no special interest for philosophy; to press philosophy into its service is to dephilosophize it.1872 November, Shadworth H. Hodgson, “The Future of Metaphysic”, in The Contemporary Review, volume 20, page 831
   • Philosopher, dephilosophize yourself, and then take off your clothes. Oh, God, what self-esteem, what ignorance, what malice, what shrunken thinking, and all in one person!1963, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 212, page 71