Sentence examples for philosophical demonstration from inspiring English sources

During these years he wrote Réflexions sur l'intérêt général de l'Europe (1815; "Reflections on the General Interest of Europe") and Démonstration philosophique du principe constitutif de la société (1830; "Philosophical Demonstration of the Formative Principle of Society").

This is, Maritain claims, a 'knowledge' that is necessary to — and, in fact leads to — a philosophical demonstration of God's existence.

Whether or not LOTH actually turns out to be empirically true in the details or in its entire vision of rational thinking, this picture of a syntactic engine driving a semantic one can at least be taken to be an important philosophical demonstration of how Descartes' challenge can be met (cf. Rey 1997: chp.8).

For a religious belief to be 'reasonable,' it must not contradict the results of 'true reason' but, for one's knowledge of 'revealed truths' to be reasonable, Maritain (like Aquinas) would never claim that one must be able to produce a philosophical demonstration of them.

In numerous writings Scudéry argues that certain religious knowledge involves both philosophical demonstrations of God's existence and the theological and moral truths unveiled by God in sacred revelation.

This 'knowledge' of God, Maritain admits, is not demonstrative but is, nevertheless, "rich in certitude" (Approches de Dieu, p. 19) and is both presupposed by, and is the underlying force for, philosophical demonstrations of God's existence.

The final page of the treatise, however, echoes the conclusion of his Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul; for Pomponazzi admits that all philosophical demonstrations are provisional and liable to be mistaken in light of the truth taught by the Church, which condemns the Stoic doctrine on fate.

But knowledge of the universal nature of the pox was not only necessary for philosophical deductive demonstrations: as we shall see, it was also the precondition of all treatment in Augsburg's pox hospital.

Sefik Oztek, Laila's owner, was philosophical about the demonstration.

Spinoza's attitude towards experimental observation seems to be, then, that it can have no weight against a theory based in sound a priori philosophical intuition and geometrical demonstration, and is easy available, though not necessary, to confirm the results of such pure theorizing.

While in the court of the Elector, Leibniz composed a series of works in philosophical theology, the Catholic Demonstrations, which are another manifestation of Leibniz's lifelong irenicism: in this case, in their attempt to provide a basis and justification for the reconciliation of Protestantism and Catholicism.