Sentence examples for famous discussions from inspiring English sources

One of the earliest, and most famous, discussions of the nature and experience of time occurs in the autobiographical Confessions of St Augustine.

1. Davidson (2001 p. 219), in one of his famous discussions of 'triangulation', credits Collingwood with the idea that consciousness of self necessarily involves that of others.

Like many of Newton's contemporaries in Cambridge in those days, he encountered these Cartesian views within the context of Henry More's then famous discussions of Cartesianism (a term coined by More himself).

Some years later he even admitted that his famous discussions of thought experiments were actually trivial since "… if the process of observation itself is subject to the laws of quantum theory, it must be possible to represent its result in the mathematical scheme of this theory" (Heisenberg, 1975, p. 6).

(For a famous discussion of division, fusion, and their implications, see Parfit 1981).

A famous discussion to this effect is Kant's discussion of the ontological argument in (Kant 1781/7), namely (KrV A592/B620 ff).

From his account of the demise of feudalism (1776, Book II, Ch. 4) to his famous discussion of the invisible hand, Smith emphasizes unintended consequences.

Aristotle's main and most famous discussion of the principle of non-contradiction occurs in Metaphysics IV (Gamma) 3 6, especially 4.

Machiavelli's most famous discussion of Fortuna occurs in Chapter 25 of The Prince, in which he proposes two analogies for understanding the human situation in the face of events.

Chapter 1 is a justly famous discussion regarding the difficulties of effecting theory reduction between classical and molecular genetics, but chapter 5, "Organicism and Reductionism", has been relatively neglected.

Sidgwick's famous discussion of the 'dualism of practical reason' can now be seen as an instance of the more general tension between agent-relative and agent-neutral reasons.