The existence of alternatives is not merely desirable but necessary: both philosophical and political fact.
But philosophy alone cannot provide the necessary details; philosophical argument by itself would underdetermine a penal code and has no means to administer one.
But knowledge of the universal nature of the pox was not only necessary for philosophical deductive demonstrations: as we shall see, it was also the precondition of all treatment in Augsburg's pox hospital.
Data on people's beliefs about distributive justice is also useful for addressing the necessary intersection between philosophical and political processes.
For Althusser, such areas of Marx's text are "symptoms," in the psychoanalytic sense of the word, of the necessary but unarticulated philosophical framework that underwrites and allows his scientific investigations.
I will own that I have not put in the full work necessary to understand the philosophical or theoretical foundation upon which these terms rest.
"If you wish to converse with me," said Voltaire, "define your terms". A definition of terms is the boring, necessary foundation to any philosophical debate, and is equally relevant to appreciating this book.
Heringer presents an inside glimpse into the kinds of techniques and strategies that are necessary to implement her philosophical values within the profession, as well as managing doubt in the face of adversity.
Its rapid growth attracted the attention of philosophers of science and helped to strengthen the new consensus among them that an appreciation of the history of science is necessary for a proper philosophical understanding of the nature of science and scientific theorizing.
Especially since Ibn Sina, the deity was widely identified with wajib al-wujud, "that whose existence is necessary"; but, as a philosophical category, is "necessary existence" necessarily unique?
