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• The philosophical ideas of the ancient Greeks endure to this day.From the entry to this day
• Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.From the entry rarefied
• Though the field is still in its infancy, its philosophical implications are staggering.2025 March 13, Dalton Conley, “A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way”, in New York Times. From the entry hereditarian
• For all this sang-froid, Professor Frankfurt was heartfelt in his philosophical pursuits.2023 July 17, James Ryerson, “Harry G. Frankfurt, Philosopher With a Surprise Best Seller, Dies at 94”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry sang-froid
• In the end, the picture we get is closer to Plotinism than to philosophical atomicism!2023, Evandro Agazzi, Realism and Quantum Physics, page 170. From the entry atomicism
• This seems like a pretty philosophical way of defining “breakup” and “relationship,” but sure, Jan.2023 May 18, Kathleen Walsh, “Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss Didn’t Break Up Because They Were Never Together, Apparently”, in Glamour. From the entry sure, Jan
• In the Timeaeus, Plato's philosophical theology achieves its fullest form and articulation.2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry hyperdivine
• There’s very little intellectual or philosophical diversity in our newsrooms as a result.2019 July 3, Omri Nahmias, Mark Levin, “Mark Levin, Unplugged”, in Mishpacha. From the entry incestuous
• Instead of hearts on sleeves, expect caution, philosophical doubt, a bland smile.2019, Andrew Beatty, “Java: Emotions Analyzed”, in Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry hearts on sleeves
• The existential approach to therapy is philosophical, involving exploration of what it means to be alive.2015, Alan Meaden, Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis. From the entry therapy
• Books in this category, he wrote, subordinated aesthetic, philosophical, and narrative values to the goal of arousal.2014, Sarah L. Leonard, Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Philadelphia, Pa.…. From the entry chronique scandaleuse
• "We're all just pieces of poop," observed Dylan in an almost philosophical manner.2012, Randel McGirr, Black Turtle: Tale of the Turtle, page 78. From the entry piece of poop
• This is a novel of ideas—brimming with high concepts and complicated philosophical questions.2009, Tayari Jones, “[Review of Rebel Yell]”, in Alice Randall, Rebel Yell […], New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN. From the entry high concept
• On the whole, Dyke’s book is an important contribution to debates about philosophical methodology, truthmaking, and ontology.2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2…. From the entry truthmaking
• I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 1 (black comedy, surreal comedy), spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman). From the entry blow someone's mind
• The theory to repsychologise the philosophical account should not be misunderstood with an idea to dephilosophise it.2007, Meera Chakravorty, Consciousness, Time, and Praxis, page 35. From the entry dephilosophise
• Philosophical behaviourism, in contrast, is an analytic view — a substantive theory of what mental states are.2007, Matt Carter, Minds and Computers, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry philosophical behaviourism
• Are you promoltigating your exorditation or articulating superficial sentimentality and amicable philosophical observation?2006, Christine Matzke, Geoffrey V. Davis, Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry platitudeness
• But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.2005 January 9, Thomas Hauser, Marilyn Cole Lownes, “How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring”, in The Observer. From the entry gaudy
• The luminaries of the ‘first sophistic’—Philostratus cites Gorgias, Critias, and others—treated, we are told, abstract philosophical themes.2005, Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry sophistic
• It follows that philosophical behaviorism offers a physicalist account of mental states.2005, Ian Ravenscroft, Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry philosophical behaviorism
• This dreamworld has already become the object of natural scientific and philosophical investigations.2003, Rudolf Steiner, chapter 5, in Sleep and Dreams: A Bridge to the Spirit, SteinerBooks, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry dreamlife
• 'Identity' is a freighted term to use in a philosophical context.2002, Keith Graham, Practical Reasoning in a Social World. From the entry freighted
• Rather, the philosophical and religious implications of jūdō are left to emerge implicitly out of jūdō practice.2002, David Waterhouse, “Buddhism and the Teaching of Jūdō”, in Victor Sōgen Hori, Richard P. Hayes, James Mark Shields, editors, Teaching…. From the entry jūdō
• Your philosophical touchstone is Justice Louis Brandeis' bromide that sunlight is the best disinfectant.1999 March 15, Michael Kinsley, “The Trouble with Scoops”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jan 2016. From the entry sunlight is the best disinfectant
• And if we look to post-Platonic texts, etymological argument for philosophical positions seems to become common practice.1998, Rachel Barney, “Socrates Agonistes: The Case of the Cratylus Etymologies”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XVI…. From the entry etymological argument
• What is the guiding methodology or way of thinking for the philosophical idea or ideas?1997, Chung-ying Cheng, “The origins of Chinese philosophy”, in Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam, editors, Companion Encyclopedia of Asian…. From the entry theoreticity
• Thus, in the technical philosophical sense, they carry no truth quotients.1995, Walter H. Capps, Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline, →ISBN, page 249. From the entry truth quotient
• But this is not the philosophical revolution of which I speak.1992, Arthur Coleman Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry dictum
• Thus, the philosophical behaviorist does not eliminate mental discourse, but offers a way to legitimize it.1988, William Bechtel, Philosophy of Mind: An Overview for Cognitive Science, Hillsdale, New Jersey; Hove; London: Lawrence Erlbaum…. From the entry philosophical behaviorist
• The cynegetic life is authentic because it is close to the philosophical center of human life.1973, Paul Shepard, “Hunting as a Way of Life”, in The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons…. From the entry cynegetic
• Fortunately Kathryn looks her most duchessy in evening gowns and Bo is unusually philosophical about boiled shirts.1945, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, How America lives. From the entry duchessy
• Chauncey Wright, something of a philosophical celebrity in those days, was never absent from our meetings.1940, Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosophical Writings of Peirce, page 270. From the entry corypheus
• To an extent, that is the point of NatCon, as an almost philosophical talking shop, not a policy forum.2023 May 17, Peter Walker, “Ten things we learned from the UK NatCon conference”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry natcon
• That apparent self-defeating contradiction is not a Sisyphean exercise in futility devised as a cruel philosophical joke by nihilistic engineers.2020 September 7, Adam Ragusea, 0:14 from the start, in How refrigerators work, and how we all ended up with one, Macon, archived from the…. From the entry sisyphean
• Poetism was intended to be more of a “new aesthetic and philosophical attitude” and an “art of living”.2017, Harri Veivo, Jean-Pierre Montier, Françoise Nicol, Beyond Given Knowledge, page 97. From the entry poetism
• It’s a word that expresses a philosophical position about cross-connection.2015, Theodor Holm Nelson, “What Box?”, in Douglas R. Dechow, Daniele C. Struppa, editors, Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted…. From the entry intertwingle

Meaning of philosophical

1. adjective Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
2. adjective Rational; analytic or critically minded; thoughtful.
3. adjective Detached, calm, stoic.

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How do you use philosophical in a sentence?

Philosophical is used as an adjective. For example: “The philosophical ideas of the ancient Greeks endure to this day.”

What is a short sentence with philosophical?

“Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.”

What does philosophical mean?

Philosophical means of, or pertaining to, philosophy.