Sentence examples for philosophical phrasing from inspiring English sources

But, to put it in a more "philosophical" phrasing, these tests evoke the Sherlock Holmes logic of inquiry: ""Eliminate the impossible, and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth".

I like the old philosophical-logical phrase "to beg the question," which means to try to sneak the conclusion of your argument into one of your assumptions.

Buried under all those vague philosophical musings, pretentious phrases ("reflexivity," "radical fallibility") and grandiose proposals, Soros has a valid point.

More popularly, his most famous and enduring contribution may be for coining the phrase 'survival of the fittest.' He derived this phrase from philosophical reflection, not scientific observation, six years before Darwin published The Origin of Species [ 17].

Her billboards tend to feature philosophical quotes or humorous phrases.

That phrase grants philosophical license to the peculiar, the obscene, and the objectionable.

She can make the same phrase seem philosophical and conversational, and about as natural as sighing.

There are countless jaundiced-philosophical turns of phrase that sound like the authorial voice ("Love shouldn't be mediated through consumption", and so on).

The trick is to avoid self-consciousness, to let all those deliciously phrased epigrams and philosophical monologues pour out like water from a spigot.

Darwin, in a lovely phrase, called it "philosophical laughing," which was his way of saying that those who depart from cultural or intellectual consensus need people to walk beside them and laugh with them to give them confidence.

But his struggle to explain the concept of the Big Society, his brushing off of the child benefit row with a single phrase, and his philosophical justification for the way forward lacked conviction as much as inspiration.