Sentence examples for philosophical discovery from inspiring English sources

Thus, like a first-year undergraduate, he can happily go around asking loudly, "What caused God?" as though he had made some momentous philosophical discovery.

The work somewhat anticipates the ideas of the great thinkers of the century following his death by its emphasis on induction as a method of psychological and philosophical discovery.

This is not a career for an individual on an introspective voyage of philosophical discovery.

The Easy Arguments succeed, but their success marks no great philosophical discovery and raises no hard questions of the sort that have traditionally bothered metaphysicians of a nominalist bent.

If that is so, then dialectic plays a significant role in the order of philosophical discovery: we come to establish first principles in part by determining which among our initial endoxa withstand sustained scrutiny.

But since Wittgenstein was later to accuse his Tractarian self of having entertained the concept of a distinctive kind of philosophical discovery (see WVC 182, quoted below), we must not rush — as Malcolm appears to have done, to the conclusion that he conceived of the discovery in question as "empirical" in anything like the contemporary sense of the word.

Maclaurin's Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries was published posthumously, as was his Treatise of Algebra (1748).

It concentrates on the most important period of Cage's philosophical discoveries and starts drawing to a close in the early 1960s, when the composer still had more than a third of his life and work ahead of him.

Unger was happy to take these results to be philosophical discoveries, but they are so counterintuitive that most theorists hold that they form a reductio of his theory.

It is here that he made his most important philosophical discoveries (cf. Mohanty 1995), such as the transcendental-phenomenological method, the phenomenological structure of time-consciousness, the fundamental role of the notion of intersubjectivity in our conceptual system, the horizon-structure of our singular empirical thought, and more.

An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books.