Nevertheless, others found in Voltaire both a model of the well-oriented philosophe and a set of particular philosophical positions appropriate to this stance.
'Reduction' is a term of natural language, and, building upon its common metaphoric meaning philosophers use it to designate relations of particular philosophical importance in a number of closely related fields, especially in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.
Lewis regarded his doctrine of nonactual things and worlds as a "philosopher's paradise," and much of his work on particular philosophical problems (in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology) presupposed the reality of nonactual things.
It is hard to situate Taylor squarely within any particular philosophical school.
"I am not saying that the atomic theory would never have emerged in science if it had not had those particular philosophical and poetic roots in ancient Rome.
In my experience, many professors and college students don't even realize that their views on political issues rely on a particular philosophical or theological stance.
But that is an artefact of the Enlightenment: of churches' knuckling under to Gibbon and others who were contemptuous of metaphysics – in particular, philosophical theology.
"I think the particular accomplishments of commissioner Bratton, and the particular philosophical affinity, just jumped off the page to me," de Blasio said.
That is, analyses of motivation are understood, at least in part, by examining the particular philosophical point of view espoused by the theorist.
The department requires that all majors take at least one seminar (PHIL UN3912), designed to allow students to focus on particular philosophical issues or texts in greater depth.
A staunch rationalist, cast in the mold of H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw, he had no particular philosophical originality, but in some 40 books he set forth the ideas of others with great clarity, in addition to expressing his own prickly opinions.
