Sentence examples for philosophical assertion from inspiring English sources

This philosophical assertion is central to "The Race", where their blend of inquisitive eclecticism and euphoric rock surge recalls The Coral.

Schoenberg's unfinished opera is a work of the utmost sobriety and seriousness — a philosophical assertion of monotheism that confirmed Schoenberg's reconversion to Judaism — and it is presented by Straub and Huillet in a form that avoids any theatrical effects (or, to put it in the language of 1975, "bourgeois illusionism") or direct emotional appeals.

Such fundamental philosophical assertions as the existence of a physical world, however, are taken for granted among most of those who study perception from a scientific perspective.

The Republican version is an argument, a series of philosophical assertions that require voters to make concrete choices about the direction of the country.

The philosophical claim that the assertion of moral equality for all human beings falls into the conceptual and ethical vice of 'speciesism' is rebutted.

Ultimately, the philosophical question is whether these assertions of intuitionist access would or would not be refuted by the skeptical arguments that Zhuangzi directed against the Confucians.

"Assertion, Knowledge, and Context," Philosophical Review 111 (2002): 167-203.

"Assertion, Knowledge, and Context," Philosophical Review 111 (2002): 167-203 [JSTOR link].

He denied that the biblical Prophets were philosophers and used a philosophical and historical approach to the Scriptures to show that the contrary assertion is not borne out by the texts.

Representationism, also called Representationalism, philosophical theory of knowledge based on the assertion that the mind perceives only mental images (representations) of material objects outside the mind, not the objects themselves.

This line of reasoning is not based on any evidence or research; it is a philosophical assumption - an ipse-dixitism (a dogmatic assertion).