Sentence examples for a philosophical point from inspiring English sources

Rather, Tempier's reproach should be taken as an attempt to ridicule the hermeneutical practice of commentators to evaluate a doctrine (for instance's Aristotle's) from a philosophical point of view ("philosophically speaking") and from faith.

They defend this conventional element: "a philosophical point, widely appreciated by philosophers of science, but often not explicitly acknowledged by scientists, deserves to be noted in relation to this: conventional elements almost always enter into theoretical reasoning in science (Nagel 1961; Sarkar 1998).

Sometimes, there's a philosophical point being made.

"Nothing gets across a philosophical point better than a well-chosen example".

She said the protest was intended to make a philosophical point about freedom rather than to "draw attention to ourselves".

But it does raise a philosophical point: if you increase tax on posh foods, where do you start and stop?

After describing his own shattered inward reaction to Frankfurter's declaration, Karski makes a philosophical point of an extraordinary profundity.

As yesterday's post pointed out, the virtuous have suffered as well as the sinners.Solving the crisis also raises a philosophical point.

Of the thousands of cartoons with which Charlie Hebdo has cocked a snook at authority, one in particular makes a philosophical point.

Today the most shocking element of Strauss's notorious 1905 opera seems not its eroticism and necrophilia but its absence of a philosophical point of view.

It combined the best aspects of reporting — a gimlet eye and an open heart — with a philosophical point of view that skipped ahead of any claim of self-indulgence.