Sentence examples for philosophical error from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ayache argues that the practical problems reflect a basic philosophical error.

A "philosophical error," Gore calls this theory in his best-selling book on the environmental crisis, "Earth in the Balance," published in 1992.

This philosophical error is called "essentialism", and it is a supreme irony that Mayr, the opponent of essentialism about individual species, was held in thrall to essentialism about taxonomic concepts.

Finally, wound up with these two strands is the philosophical error that misunderstands concrete, relational processes as fixed, simple abstractions (1997, 147).

(The appearance of this inclination in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, for example, is well mapped by Fogelin [1976, Ch. IV].) And it is characteristic of Wittgenstein to talk of philosophical error in terms of nonsense.

The principal philosophical error that led to the reification of universal properties as independent existents is the conflation of the objects of conception with the objects of perception (EIP 4.1, 302 3).

In Socratic style, he leads the intrepid and presumably naive group expertly through the minefields of philosophical errors and rhetorical ploys – the first half of the book – until they, and we his readers, are judged ready to join him, via a long detour into computer programming, in an assault on his traditional opponents.

Those (like Hobbes) who thought so were guilty of basic philosophical errors.

He intends in this part to combat a range of philosophical errors incompatible, as he sees it, with the Christian faith.

Rand also tended perhaps owing in part to the same two influences to regard philosophical errors as revelatory of the psychological flaws of their authors.

Since Avicenna's Kitab al-Shifa', despite its numerous errors, has become the philosophical encyclopedia of reference among 'Abd al-Latif's contemporaries, he believes that Avicenna is the indirect cause of the vast spread of philosophical errors, such as the confusing, for example, the object proper to the Physics, that is, nature, with that of the Metaphysics.