Sentence examples for philosophical consistency from inspiring English sources

But more to the point, the conservative indictment fails a basic test of philosophical consistency.

Around this time, the Reagan Administration began "breeding" Supreme Court Justices placing possible candidates on the courts of appeal to test them for philosophical consistency.

Around this time, the Reagan Administration began "breeding" Supreme Court Justices — placing possible candidates on the courts of appeal to test them for philosophical consistency.

If a candidate doesn't lay down a layer of philosophical consistency, then any small campaign clarification gets turned into a character issue.

Unfortunately for Barr, one such group of people might be the Libertarian Party, which frequently prefers philosophical consistency to electoral viability (a significant minority of Libertarians found Ron Paul too conventionally conservative in 1988).

Tim Hagan, the Democratic nominee for governor in Ohio in 2002, praised Mr. Kucinich's philosophical consistency, which he said was not a result of political posturing but genuine conviction.

Given this, it scarcely seems sensible to assess philosophical theories by their consistency with the immediate reactions of philosophers to test cases.

"I am really flabbergasted by the depth and consistency of her philosophical critique of the ideal of impartial justice," Mr. Sessions said.

On the one hand, Sextus aims at the consistency of one philosophical outlook.

Of course the citizens of Athens couldn't have honoured Zeno for a life lived in consistency with his philosophical principles unless the content of those principles was known to the general public.

What was new was the way in which Hilbert wanted to imbue his consistency project with the philosophical significance necessary to answer Brouwer and Weyl's criticisms: the finitary point of view.