The phrase "a philosophical difficulty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing challenges or complexities related to philosophical concepts or theories.
Example: "The debate surrounding free will presents a significant philosophical difficulty that has puzzled thinkers for centuries."
Alternatives: "a philosophical challenge" or "a philosophical issue".
Some of the passages here deal with issues of real technical complexity and philosophical difficulty, and those are admirably clear.
Given the philosophical difficulty of their project, it might seem surprising that critical theory – the name given to the Frankfurt school's intellectual practice – is alive and well and reaches parts other branches of university enterprise often fail to reach.
In actual proof-theoretic practice, as well as explicitly in (Hilbert and Bernays, 1934; Bernays, 1930), these basic operations are generalized to operations defined by recursion, paradigmatically, primitive recursion, e.g., multiplication and exponentiation (see Parsons 1998 for a discussion of philosophical difficulties in relation to exponentiation).
Though this has traditionally been taken to mean that the two representations are homeomorphic, such a notion of equivalence suffers from a variety of technical and philosophical difficulties; we adopt the stronger notion of ambient isotopy.
Also, the question concerning how long a regularity must persist raises philosophical difficulties about degrees which need answering before we have an adequate distinction between processes and spatiotemporal junk.
A related set of themes concerns the political and philosophical difficulties in formulating a theory of gender oppression and strategies for resistance when multiple modalities of oppression are recognized: If trans people are oppressed as trans people and women are oppressed as women, then it would seem we need an account of at least two different modalities of gender oppression.
The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects.
However, Kant's discussion of the principle has been thought to pose a number of serious interpretative and philosophical difficulties, including the following: (1) How are the various formulations of the principle related?
This caveat—Hume's "problem of induction"—seemed to most working scientists, however, to be one of those insoluble philosophical difficulties that haunt the game without actually spoiling the party.
This caveat — Hume's "problem of induction" — seemed to most working scientists, however, to be one of those insoluble philosophical difficulties that haunt the game without actually spoiling the party.
