Sentence examples for a philosophical proposition from inspiring English sources

But while the exercise may make for good politics, as a philosophical proposition it is arguably deeply flawed.

One of Lasseter's trademarks is the animation of inanimate objects - his work is a philosophical proposition in which animation is not just the medium but the subject matter.

Through Nov. 30 William Anastasi's work falls somewhere between a Zen koan (What is the sound of one hand clapping?) and a philosophical proposition (If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?).

If the validity of a philosophical proposition is determined by its systematic, logical connection to other propositions, then what determines the truth of the first principle, from which the system as a whole is generated or derived?

Against the background of such ongoing debate, this article aims to present a philosophical proposition regarding the acquisition of knowledge, which may help to clarify the relationship between the epistemological concepts that appear to underlie the different standpoints of EBM critics and promoters.

Tucked away in the middle of Julian Baggini's interesting reflections on accepting how complex life can be, provoked by the animated film Inside Out (A cartoon to help us find ourselves, 28 July), is the profoundly contentious philosophical proposition that the self has nothing permanent or unchanging at its core.

When Samuel Johnson was asked how he would refute Bishop Berkeley's philosophical proposition about the non-existence of matter, he famously kicked a stone and said: "I refute it thus!" Not having a convenient stone, I pick up the nearest object that lies to hand.

The only way to be sure that any two propositions are truly consistent with one another and hence, the only way to determine whether a number of philosophical propositions actually constitute a "system"—is to show that they can all be traced back to the same first principle or foundation [Grundsatz].

More philosophical proposition than fly-on-the-wall dramatisation.

Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.

Dr Martin regards the midfielder "as an exemplar or embodiment of a number of philosophical propositions" about crisis, conflict and identity.