Sentence examples for naturalistic solution from inspiring English sources

In this treatise Buffon offered a naturalistic solution to the two inherited Cartesian dilemmas.

This naturalistic "solution" prompts two obvious criticisms, both raised by Hobbes in the Third Objections.

On closer inspection, the Sixth Meditation passage puts forward not a naturalistic solution, but a theistic one.

He's aware that the naturalistic solution does not stand up to methodic doubt, but he's not attempting to overcome the Now Dreaming Doubt with indefeasible Knowledge.

Taken at face value, this reply rules out a relaxed standards interpretation; it indeed rules out any interpretation involving a naturalistic solution to the problem of dreaming.

A strong version would have it that LOTH provides a complete naturalistic solution to both questions: given the resources of LOTH we don't need to look any further to meet Brentano's challenge.

That's what makes Albee's inventions so profoundly naturalistic: his characters have no solutions.

Her solution is to adopt a naturalistic and empirical approach to biases, embracing the idea that biases are an inevitable component of knowing, but arguing that it is an empirical question to determine which biases are good in that they lead to the truth, and which are bad in that they lead us away from truth.

During the last years of his career, dedicated almost exclusively to la Sagrada Família, Gaudí reached the culmination of this naturalistic style, creating a synthesis of all of the solutions and styles he had tried until then.

The real ingenuity of the biosemantic solution ultimately rests in its appeal to a naturalistic domain that, although as natural as the domains of physics and chemistry, nonetheless includes the possibility of a kind of error.

First, the solution runs contrary to Descartes' No Atheistic Knowledge Thesis: since the continuity test (on the naturalistic reading of it) does not invoke God, it thus appears, as Hobbes notes, "that someone can know he is awake without knowledge of the true God" (AT 7 196).