Sentence examples for philosophical rigour from inspiring English sources

But his work has little philosophical rigour.

Without ever abandoning philosophical rigour, he excelled at revealing the richness of human life from the inside.

He displayed his most dazzling verbal brilliance in his first book; he later tended to relinquish surface lustre for philosophical rigour.

Most of the problems of contemporary philosophy of biology are traditional questions now being investigated afresh in the light of scientific advances, particularly in molecular genetics, and new standards of philosophical rigour.

Murdoch brought philosophical rigour, ethical commitment and a huge intellect to fiction; on being asked how long she took off between books, she is said to have replied "about half an hour".

He was a cautious thinker, frequently pointing out the unavoidable simplifications in what he was saying; he always insisted on philosophical and linguistic rigour (even if his understanding of what constituted rigour differed from the traditional one); and he respected truth and historical accuracy in a very traditional manner.

But, unlike Bellow's, his fiction has little philosophical or ethical rigour; he hasn't, you feel, really thought hard enough about what a human being really is.

Its leading members, informed and inspired by the methods and theories of contemporary mathematics and science, sought to develop a "scientific world view" by bringing to philosophical inquiry the precision and rigour of the exact sciences.

Goodman's theory has attracted considerable attention, the more so in that it is an extension of a general philosophical perspective, expounded in works of great rigour and finesse, that embraces the entire realm of logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science.

Dissatisfied with the, to his mind, arbitrary eclecticism advocated by Thomasius and his 'school,' and equally dissatisfied with the scholastic school metaphysics which, he thought, lacked rigour, he produced a systematic philosophical system in reply.

43 What is more, he presents history as fundamentally inimical to this 'socially transcendent' enterprise: Authority in medical ethics is meant to emerge from the rigour of its socially-detached philosophical logic; for medical ethics to be historical would threaten this primary means to authority.