Sentence examples for philosophical confusions from inspiring English sources

Conventional definitions replacing terms with their synonyms merely replicate philosophical confusions and never break out of a narrow definitional circle.

Even if some version escapes recent empirical arguments, there seems little reason, once the traditional philosophical confusions have been noted, for thinking it is true.

(Or how can we tell that x at t1 is the same φ as y at t2?) The failure to distinguish these questions (a failure which may be due in part to Wittgenstein) is the source of serious philosophical confusions.

This was a strategic error rooted in philosophical confusion.

Those films can induce a kind of vertigo in the viewer, an almost philosophical confusion about the literalness of the filmed image.

The patent office has grown entangled in philosophical confusion of its own making; it has become a ferocious generator of litigation; and many technologists believe that it has begun to choke the very innovation it was meant to nourish.

It is also an intellectual curiosity, one that reveals both a philosophical confusion in Conservative thinking and the failure of the party to find a coherent approach to running a big city.

Schopenhauer follows Wolff in distinguishing among four kinds of reasons, corresponding to four kinds of objects, and charges that much philosophical confusion arises from attempts to explain objects of one kind by reasoning that belongs to the other kind.

Certain puzzle cases also seem to suggest that a person might divide into two: suppose that, as a result of philosophical confusion on the hospital ethics committee, a doctor is permitted to remove the two halves of your brain and implant them into two different (brainless) bodies.

The Oxford English Dictionary records a clear example of the word 'idea' being used in the sense of mental image as far back as 1589, but philosophical confusion over whether or not ideas are images goes back at least to the "father of Modern Philosophy," Descartes.

Those who focus on articulating category distinctions rather than on laying out complete systems of categories generally invoke categories not in hopes of providing answers to such basic metaphysical questions as 'what exists', but rather as a way of exposing, avoiding, or dissolving various presumed philosophical mistakes, confusions, and paradoxes.