Sentence examples for a philosophical position from inspiring English sources

First, while this is the type of example philosophers are wont to invent to highlight purely logical problems with a philosophical position, it does not seem particularly plausible or indeed likely that competent people would request assistance in dying for no sound reason at all.

"It was a philosophical position.

"It's not a philosophical position," Dr. Bunting said.

It's always best to have a philosophical position of hope and therefore that activism is worthwhile".

Fincher and Sorkin have turned a philosophical position into a dramatic strategy.

Believing or disbelieving in moral absolutes is a philosophical position, not a recipe for living.

FOOTNOTES: [1] Pinning a precise philosophical position on someone, especially a non-philosopher, is always tricky, because people tend to give non-equivalent formulations of what they take to be the same view.

Nominalism is primarily associated with a specific philosophical position adopted by Buddhist philosophers of the logico-epistemological tradition concerning the ontological status of universals.

For a lot of older Muslims, to be a Muslim is an identity, whereas, for me, it's a theological, philosophical position.

Based on his reading of the dreams, Hacking even suggests that for Descartes, dream-skepticism was "a live skepticism, that is, not a mere philosophical position, but genuine doubt" (Hacking 2001: 252).

Under this pressure from Philonous, Hylas retreats (perhaps a bit quickly) from naïve realism to a more "philosophical" position.