Sentence examples for philosophical consequence from inspiring English sources

22. Arguably there is also a serious philosophical consequence that faces quidditism generally and that Dharmakīrti's causal position would avoid.

We have introduced the issue of computational (or algorithmic) irreducibility when we explained the philosophical consequence of a universality proof for an automaton, namely that, although a system follows definite underlying laws, "its overall behavior can still have aspects that fundamentally cannot be described by reasonable laws" (Wolfram 2002, p. 750).

For instance, if theology turns out to have some strange and surprising philosophical consequences, many philosophers would not hesitate to reject the relevant parts of theology.

Russell's article on the philosophical consequences of relativity appeared in the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

His article for the Encyclopædia Britannica on the philosophical consequences of relativity (13th edition, 1926), clarified the space-time concept.

In The Reign of Relativity (1921) he dealt with the philosophical consequences of Albert Einstein's theories of physics.

This theory has very important philosophical consequences; for one thing, it generates a very plausible formal logic of counterfactual conditionals.

The scene also expresses Wallace's ideas about mindfulness, spectatorship, and the philosophical consequences that derive from the act of choosing one's fascinations.

If, as many predict, Watson defeats its human opponents on Wednesday, much will be made of the philosophical consequences of the machine's achievement.

In short stories such as The Electric Ant, and novels such as Ubik (1969) and his masterpiece VALIS (1981), the sci-fi master dived through the twisted philosophical consequences of not accepting reality as entirely real.

In its uncounted hours of conversation, "Please, Mr. Einstein" touches down lightly and charmingly on some of the thorniest philosophical consequences of Einstein's genius and, by extension, the scientific preoccupations of the 20th century — the nature of reality, the fate of causality, the comprehensibility of nature, the limits of the mind — while scrolling through Einstein's life.