Sentence examples for philosophical purpose from inspiring English sources

Alice rarely articulates a specific literary or philosophical purpose for any story; she speaks more often about characters' motivations than about any kind of narrative design.

The fiction of entertainment and escape frequently sets itself higher literary standards than novels with a profound social or philosophical purpose.

Céline, Proust, Sartre, Dostoevsky et al are invoked for both comic and philosophical purpose (you half-expect a cameo from Woody Allen) although dialogue is often abandoned in favour of music as the succession of tableaux vivants unfold.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Alice rarely articulates a specific literary or philosophical purpose for any story; she speaks more often about characters' motivations than about any kind of narrative design.

But according to Kim, local reductions are the rule rather than the exception in science generally, and are sufficient for any reasonable scientific or philosophical purpose.

Trying to find a deeper philosophical purpose behind this part of the tax code, the Supremes read into the law a requirement that the shareholders selling out must retain a significant interest in the surviving entity.

This exhibition's main attraction, a life-size watercolor of a rampaging, sexually aroused Indian elephant, has philosophical purposes that could be more persuasively realized, but it is impressive nevertheless.

If the mind was, in effect, software, and if the mind was what you were interested in, then for philosophical purposes surely the brain — the hardware — could be regarded as just plumbing.

The current appropriation of hermeneutics for revisionist philosophical purposes illustrates the hermeneutic notion of effective history.

The notion of a global supervenience thesis has been employed for a number of philosophical purposes.

Two-dimensional semantics has also been used for more ambitious philosophical purposes.