Sentence examples for philosophical definition from inspiring English sources

They fit the philosophical definition of personhood".

But his attention to specifics and facts renders him incapable of generalizing to a philosophical definition.

Thus also many notions are defined by symbolic logic which are not capable of philosophical definition, since they are simple and unanalyzable.

Whether there is room for such a third category of "philosophical definition," which goes beyond both ordinary analysis and stipulation, is contested (Wenar 2008).

This latter type of knowing may involve either knowing a thing's 'reason of being' (i.e., a thing's true philosophical definition) or a thing's 'reason of becoming' (i.e., knowing the causes and/or conditions that bring the thing into existence).

The classic, basic, and purely philosophical definition which is still accepted by personalists, as far as it goes, was given early on by Boethius (ca. 480 524): "persona est naturae rationalis individua substantia".

Later generations of Protestant thinkers sometimes resorted to scholastic philosophical definitions similar to those of medieval theologians; in such definitions justification became the material (or substantive) principle of the Reformation, while the matter of scriptural authority became the equally important formal (or structural) principle.

While mathematical definitions can construct their objects in intuition, philosophical definitions have no such advantages.

The situation is entirely different in the case of philosophical definitions.

The vast majority of cases almost anyone without an ax to grind would want to classify as "terrorism" exhibit the two traits implied in ordinary use and highlighted by mainstream philosophical definitions such as those quoted above: violence and intimidation.

Instead of concentrating on the philosophical definitions of key terms, as he had in his book on Democritus, Havelock turned to the Greek language itself, arguing that the meaning of words changed after the full development of written literature to admit a self-reflective subject; even pronouns, he said, had different functions.