Sentence examples for futile philosophy from inspiring English sources

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The futile philosophy of positive thinking runs through these characters' lives: thrown back on their own resources, Packer's Americans naturally gravitate towards the notion that they can triumph over social and economic hurdles by sheer force of will.

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There have been many tedious and futile discussions about the value of philosophy for modern science.

Hamilton's contends that the age-old search for a philosophy of the unconditioned is futile, and he contends that what is in effect a combination phenomenalism and presentationism will supply everything a properly grounded understanding of reality requires.

The Luddite-leaning philosophy is to be admired, even if it was futile.

Already in the twelfth century, and certainly by the early-thirteenth, it is futile even to attempt anything like a sequential narrative of the history of medieval philosophy.

He learned about questions of reference and semantics, and sought to devise a way of making philosophy into a science, with a standardized technical vocabulary -- a quest that he now thinks is futile.

As far as I can tell, it's a futile question that nobody will ever agree on the answer to; or as I like it call it, 'philosophy'philosophy

His philosophy, if such it can be called, was one of devil-may-care nihilism, expressed in a few gnomic phrases: Life is ridiculous and futile.

It is totally futile.

Resistance may be futile.

Futile rage helps nobody.

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