Sentence examples for philosopher to make from inspiring English sources

The tone was set by the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, whose Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697; "Historical and Critical Dictionary") asserted that Spinoza was the first philosopher to make atheism into a philosophical system.

Let some Western Muslim sage be the first philosopher to make that pronouncement, and mean it.

In applying the method of paraphrase, we ask the philosopher to make her ordinary language theory precise through the process of regimentation, not to uncover the hidden commitments of the original theory.[43] If she complies, then the ontological commitments of the regimented theory can be attributed to her.

Finally, Van Camp (1980) agrees with McFee that dance criticism can assist the dance philosopher to distinguish art-essential from non-art-essential features of performance, thereby assisting the dance philosopher to make ontological claims pertaining to the nature and identity of the dance work of art.

Although some such methods undoubtedly belong to everyone's normal unarticulated conceptual repertoire, it is not clear that they are defined or even definable widely enough to enable philosophers to make satisfactory sense of a quantified logic of logical necessity and logical possibility.

Only in America, as the song says — only in America are there enough mass shootings in a single week to allow pundits and philosophers to make complicated points about the nature of responsibility and guilt that elsewhere might exist only in the realm of gruesome thought experiments.

Leibniz is one of the first philosophers to make it very explicit that he is trying to work out an analysis for this new psychological account of consciousness.

He was, however, one of the first of the founding generation of 'Oxford philosophers' to make regular visits to American universities, and played an important part in spreading 'Oxford philosophy' to the USA.

Eriugena is therefore a strongly rationalistic philosopher, struggling to make sense of scriptural revelation in terms consistent with the evidence of reason.

The first translation, made around 838 by Hilduin, abbot of a monastery near Paris (who identified Dionysius not only as St. Dionysius the Areopagite but also as the first bishop of Paris), was so unintelligible that Charles II asked the great Irish philosopher, John Scottus Eriugena, to make a new translation that he completed in 862 and that was subsequently revised with clarifications in 875.

Philosophers tend to make dogmatic critics, dismembering plays to illustrate their concepts, paring back the biodiversity of actual plays to create a monoculture of well-behaved exemplars.