Sentence examples for philosophical mistake from inspiring English sources

But it took a long time because many neurobiologists had made a philosophical mistake.

This division is, for Sennett, a serious philosophical mistake with serious ethical and political consequences.

Lanier, a pioneering researcher of virtual reality, argues that it is a "philosophical mistake" to believe that computers can represent human thought or relationships.

Or, perhaps, it will be clear by then that the supposed unity of mind and of value were outgrowths of a philosophical mistake, understandable in the context of a particular stage of scientific development, but an error nonetheless.

In J. M. Coetzee's novel "Elizabeth Costello," the eponymous protagonist delivers a lecture about "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" She argues that Nagel's essay makes a typically philosophical mistake by overstating the importance of distinctions and understating the importance of commonalities.

And such a theory would have to vie with arguments of, e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein that the search for such a theory would be a philosophical mistake.

The advent of the positive period was the French Revolution, which liberated humans from their theological fancies and philosophical mistakes.

So, in effect, what I was beginning to do was a kind of abstract cognitive therapy, trying to unearth philosophical mistakes that might underlie negative feelings and see if there was room for a philosophical therapy for the midlife malaise.

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).

There are two formal points which should not be overlooked: first, the prohibitory rather than condemnatory nature of the list Kilwardby was explicit that these articles were to be prohibited for being primarily philosophical mistakes and only secondarily against Christian dogma.

Those who focus on articulating category distinctions rather than on laying out complete systems of categories generally invoke categories not in hopes of providing answers to such basic metaphysical questions as 'what exists', but rather as a way of exposing, avoiding, or dissolving various presumed philosophical mistakes, confusions, and paradoxes.