Sentence examples for philosophical examples from inspiring English sources

But recurrent philosophical examples tend to have a little symbolic halo around them, a touch of their time — those angels dancing on the head of a pin were dancing to a thirteenth-century rhythm.

But he could be unflamboyantly funny, especially in print, and his philosophical examples are witty without facetiousness or self-congratulation (a famous article contrasted a Martian whose response to painful stimuli is the inflation of cavities in his feet with a madman whose reaction is indifference).

Yet popular accounts of confirmation have often been taken to run into troubles even when faced with toy philosophical examples.

Imaginary philosophical examples are always told by an omniscient narrator, but of course real-life cases of blame are never like that, and we have to rely on our fallible judgments about the obscure motivations of other human beings.

Case studies, with their obvious focus on practice and practical examples, can help to unpack difficulty that is simply impossible through purely abstract ethical reasoning or generalised philosophical examples.

'Consider this poker,' Peter Geach hears Wittgenstein demand of Popper, picking up the poker and using it in a philosophical example.

The most prominent philosophical example is the Multiple Drafts Model (MDM) of consciousness, advanced by Daniel Dennett (1991).

A classic philosophical example displaying a similar dynamic is Bernard Williams' anecdote about Jim, the wayward botanist in South America.

One Islamic philosophical example of this view can be seen in al-Farabi who, in the introductory summary to his treatise on the perfect state, describes the ten separate cosmic intellects as "the existents which should be believed to be the angels " (PS 39), and as those "of which it should be said that they are the angels " (PS 41).

Many prominent religious works about conscience also have a significant philosophical component: examples are the works of Al-Ghazali, Avicenna, Aquinas, Joseph Butler and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (all discussed in the philosophical views section).

Other important philosophical definitions for example the determination of real being (Orbeliani, vol. I, p. 574, col. 1), of production (Orbeliani, vol. II, p. 366, col. 2; p. 367, col. 1), of causality (Orbeliani, vol. I, p. 480, col. 1 2), of motion (Orbeliani, vol. I, p. 479, col. 2)—are taken from Petrizi's Proclus Commentary.