Sentence examples for definite philosophy from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Adler has a definite philosophy of life: "I don't talk about numbers.

In 1945, Russell could write, as an unexceptionable fact, that science dealt with the realm of the definite, philosophy with the unprovable.

Taken together the Ephialtic reforms look like the result of careful thinking by particular individuals with a definite democratic philosophy.

Not definitive, just definite.

It is arguable that Russell's definition of definite descriptions was the most prominent early example of the philosophical distinction between surface grammatical form and logical form, and thus marks the beginnings of linguistic analysis as a method in philosophy.

Particularly striking was his unwavering consciousness that it was his mission to bring philosophy to a definite completion.

As discussed above (see History of analytic philosophy: Bertrand Russell, Russelll held that definite descriptions are not genuinely referring expressions, as are logically proper names, and that sentences containing them are logically equivalent to complex general statements containing existential and universal quantifiers.

Yet, there is a definite sense that Falaquera believed that philosophy could be of benefit to a far greater percentage of Jews than Ibn Daud or Maimonides thought.

One way of taking account of this is by speaking (as above) explicitly of the philosophies (in the plural) of the Vienna Circle (and to avoid the singular definite description) while using the expression "Vienna Circle philosophy" (without an article) in a neutral generic sense.

Most of the action in the philosophy of language has been with definite descriptions, but indefinite descriptions have also generated a fair bit of attention some of it mirroring the debates about definite descriptions.

There is no philosophy of the commentators in the sense of a definite set of doctrines that all the ancient commentators on Aristotle shared.