Sentence examples for philosophical lexicon from inspiring English sources
The term 'philosophical lexicon' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a collection of philosophical terms and definitions. For example, "The philosophical lexicon explains the various theories of existentialism in simple language."
The technical term 'real essence' is introduced into the philosophical lexicon by the English philosopher John Locke (1632 1704) in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding[1] (hereafter "Essay") that was first published in London, in December of 1689.
The public perception of philosophy today is closer to the definition of wisdom offered by "The Philosophical Lexicon," a satirical dictionary compiled by the philosopher Daniel Dennett and published online: "A state of clarity and understanding so complete and exhaustive, yet also so detailed and complex, as to be totally incommunicable".
In 1969, Mr. Dennett began keeping his "Philosophical Lexicon," a dictionary of cheeky pseudo-terms playing on the names of mostly 20th-century philosophers, including himself.
And it was not until Descartes wrote his "Meditations" at the end of the 1630s that a rigorous distinction between how things appear to me and how they are independent of my perspective entered the philosophical lexicon.
He wrote in a direct, pointed, elegant, almost Johnsonian way, and had a capacity to produce crisp epigrammatic terms that entered the philosophical lexicon, such as "pronouns of laziness" for pronouns that only commonsensically, not grammatically, refer to something.
Ibn Tibbon's Perush ha-Millot ha-Zarot was the first major philosophical lexicon written in Hebrew.
The philosophical glossary or lexicon is, in fact, a very old genre.
He produced the first major lexicon of philosophical Hebrew; and he included explanatory glosses in the margins of his translation of the Guide, which established the foundation for a proper commentary tradition.
His dozens of books include "The Conditions of Philosophy" (1965); "The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense" (1970); "The Common Sense of Politics" (1971); "Ten Philosophical Mistakes" (1985), and "The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought" (1992).
buys Lexicon's linguistic rationales.
