Sentence examples for philosophical jargon from inspiring English sources

The phrase "philosophical jargon" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The philosopher's writing was filled with complex philosophical jargon, making it difficult for non-experts to understand his ideas.

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She saw her task as "the incredibly important deflation of pretentiousness and philosophical jargon".

And non-expert readers may struggle with the occasional dollops of philosophical jargon ("the spatial metaphysics of the world", for example) which should not have survived the editing process.Mr Keith manages to keep the tone sober without ever sounding dull.

Sartre has become more risible than lisible: unremittingly depicted as laughable philosopher toad – ugly, randy, incomprehensible, forever excitably over-caffeinated at Les Deux Magots with Simone de Beauvoir, encircled with pipe smoke and mired in philosophical jargon, not so much a man as a stock pantomime figure.

True, it hardly amounts to research into spiritual realities (whatever that means), but Taylor hints obligingly at a time in which secularism's "hegemony of the mainstream master narrative" could be over (a great elucidator of Hegel, Taylor doesn't so much turn a phrase as let it curdle in philosophical jargon).

He therefore strove to uncover 'facts of consciousness' through an analysis of concrete examples which would be free of philosophical jargon.

(For the nature of the dictum, contrasted with the 'facts' and 'propositions' of twentieth-century philosophical jargon, see Marenbon 1997, 202 209).

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Second, he has the ability to imbue medical jargon with the philosophical depth of Kierkegaard and poetry of TS Eliot.

But this disagreement goes beyond technical economic jargon and gets at a fundamental, even philosophical, disagreement about what the "economy" is.

But the philosophical allusions to Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin can be overwhelming in places, as is the jargon.

Jargon like "cosmic poetry," "quantum consciousness" and "space-time geometry," often conflating scientific and philosophical terms lumped under "the ineffable".

With colleagues he was "tolerant (and) uncensorious" (Warnock, xiv), but in philosophical debate he could turn into a formidable opponent, expressing an intense dislike of pomposity, pretence and jargon (Urmson, 271; Gallop, 228).

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