Sentence examples for philosophical role from inspiring English sources

The philosophers for whom acquaintance plays a critical philosophical role are usually unapologetic about their inability to define the concept (e.g., Fumerton 1995: 76 7).

Synthetic everyday truisms can certainly be philosophically significant, and so their articulation and evaluation can play an important philosophical role.

Roosevelt's answer to his interviewer reflected a belief that the Presidency has both a political role and a philosophical role.

Because of its prominence, water has long played an important religious and philosophical role in human history.

The attraction of that contention for analytic philosophers was that it seemed to provide a solution to the problems arising from the skeptical tradition that Hume himself, in his other philosophical role, had done so much to reinvigorate.

(This metaphor is investigated by Stoddard 1988; Kant's juridical and political metaphors are given a central philosophical role by Saner 1967 and O'Neill 1989).

As we shall see, proponents of classical foundationalism typically ascribe other important philosophical roles to acquaintance.

The nature, philosophical basis, roles of research staff members, outputs and impacts, and strengths and limitations of each model are described, in the context of a long-standing, interdisciplinary research program in a children's rehabilitation service organization.

This leads to a philosophical question: What role do humans play in the planet's evolution?

Perin is philosophical about his role finding the new faces that the fashion world thrives on.

In contrast, our more experienced Iowan friends and neighbors are philosophical about their role in American politics.