Sentence examples for philosophical construct from inspiring English sources

In its most common form, the trolley problem, a flexible philosophical construct created by the Oxford philosopher Philippa Foot, asks whether you would sacrifice one life to stop a runaway trolley in order to save the lives of five people standing in its path.

Bush therefore spins connections, crisscrossing her philosophical construct.

In other words, money is already removed from the realm of the physical: it is a historical and philosophical construct that holds society together.

Festivals based on themes — whether a composer, a country, or a historical or philosophical construct — have grown increasingly common on the concert calendar.

Wooden's Pyramid of Success, his renowned philosophical construct for basketball and life, was rooted in the proverbial rural gymnasium that in most Indiana burgs would rank second only to church.

When he finally admits to feeling affection for Eliza — or, at least, jealousy of Freddy, who adores her — it's more of a philosophical construct than an emotion, and it does nothing to free him from his snobbery: I've grown accustomed to her face!

Such research, if accurate, provides very real constraints to philosophical constructs on the nature of the good.

The larger philosophical constructs at work are exciting and radical enough to rivet attention in their own right, regardless of some of the finer nuances.

This boy is one of Ms. Goldstein's walking philosophical constructs, insofar as his destiny will be determined by the Hasidic community unless he insists on independence.

They are philosophical constructs with real-world implications imaginary entities that are totally real in their ability to seriously impact your life.

However, the strength of these data is that they provided an opportunity to examine the experts'naturalisticideasdeaboutout capacity and to analyse the points of convergence with and divergence from current legal, clinical and philosophical constructs.