Sentence examples for philosophical explanation from inspiring English sources

And some philosophers have looked for a distinctively philosophical explanation of delusions, which draws on concepts previously formulated in the philosophy of mind.

One of the first people to offer a scientific or philosophical explanation for the Sun was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who reasoned that it was a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than the Peloponnesus rather than the chariot of Helios, and that the Moon reflected the light of the Sun.

Such explanations, Voltaire argued, are fictions, not philosophy, and the philosopher needs to recognize that very often the most philosophical explanation of all is to offer no explanation at all.

(The Tories, he laments, have no "policy coherence or even philosophical explanation").

The department's low student-staff ratio of less than 15:1 is likely to be another reason for students' satisfaction, but Martin suggests there may also be a more philosophical explanation.

In one of his well-known essays, "The Politics of Recognition" (1992), Taylor tried to provide a deeper philosophical explanation of why groups within Western societies were increasingly making claims for public acknowledgment of their particular identities, be this on the basis of gender, race, or ethnicity.

The Neo-Confucian philosophers and brothers Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi of the 11th century sought philosophical explanations for the workings of principle (li) and vital energy (qi) in nature, responding to the notions of highly complex metaphysics in popular Buddhist thought.

In "Philosophical Explanations" (1981), he explored the nature of knowledge, the self, free will and ethics.

It provides some philosophical explanations of the problem, which may or may not help the frustrated.

Others offer more philosophical explanations, saying that because the city seems larger than life, even the story of its rotting debris, as told in "Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York -- The Last 200 Years," can draw readers.

Fresh out of lively liberal arts programs, especially brilliant students, taking their first law school exams, tend to digress into historical and philosophical explanations of the controlling legal rules.