Sentence examples for philosophical description from inspiring English sources

On the other hand a two-factor explanation, or some other neuropsychological account, does not have to falsify a philosophical description of delusions.

Instead, constructive empiricism is to be understood as a philosophical description of science that seeks to explain how an empiricist can regard the activity of science as consistent with the empiricist's own standards of rational activity.

In a tradition where philosophical inquiry is a form of religious praxis, it appears that provisional acceptance of the tenets of lower schools was used to ripen the mind for increasingly more subtle and accurate philosophical descriptions of reality.

However, just like normative philosophical descriptions of caring, mirroring the content of nursing education, these descriptions are not strange when considering the relative lack of empirical studies investigating how contemporary caring can be understood.

The problem with these philosophical descriptions is that they do not serve as explicit guides for today's nurses, particularly in the light of the considerable changes that have taken place in the healthcare sector.

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Downstairs was another panel taking up questions of mortality, titled, ominously, "Ergo Sum Game: Poetry as Philosophical Foray," whose description invited participants to "join us as we explore how a bewitched intelligence works within and towards poetry".

Combining rigorous philosophical argument with journalistic description, "Animal Liberation" is one of those rare books that demand that you either defend the way you live or change it.

Poet and essayist Lucian Blaga attempted to provide a philosophical foundation for the description of Romanian national characteristics, partly determined by geographical conditions, while Gala Galaction translated the Bible and wrote novels on biblical subjects.

But was this rigorous mathematical and empirical description a philosophical account of bodies in motion?

Technical, because on subjects such as (say) war-making, the general should be consulted about the accuracy of Homer's description thereof; philosophical because both the method of assessing the whole (the "Socratic method") and the comprehensive claims about the truth made by interpreter and poet, are properly philosophical preoccupations for Plato.