Sentence examples for philosophical techniques from inspiring English sources

For both, philosophical techniques are means, not ends" (1996, 37).

Second, distinctively philosophical techniques might be brought to bear in helping the theologian clear up imprecise or ambiguous theological claims.

Furthermore, if Plato felt strongly indebted to Socrates for many of his philosophical techniques and ideas, that would give him further reason for assigning a dominant role to him in many of his works.

The development and testing of applications, such as the problem of formalizing the reasoning involved in getting to the airport, posed as a challenge in McCarthy 1959 (see Section 2.2, below), doesn't even appear as a category in the list of JPL topics, and in fact most of the philosophical logic literature is theoretical in nature, and is tested using philosophical techniques.

The secret to his chillness comes from body hacking (sometimes known as bio hacking), which is a method of altering the human body through special food combinations and philosophical techniques.

His approach to educating his students about philosophical pitfalls and techniques of argument such as oversimplification and reductio ad absurdum (Dennett calls them intuition pumps) is a master class in philosophical theatre, packed with snappy vignettes – thought experiments in the absurd to skewer his opponents.

The Kyoto School, of which Nishida was the pioneering founder, is so identified because of its common focus; Nishida's important work, East/West comparative philosophy, and an on-going attempt to give expression to Japanese ideas and concepts by means of the clarity afforded by Western philosophical tools and techniques.

Now we can move on to something a little less philosophical, the actual technique.

For further philosophical discussion of localization techniques and arguments see Bechtel and Richardson 1993 and Bechtel and Mundale 1997 and in press.

The aim of this chapter is to provide a theoretical background on fatigue and fracture concepts, as well as the different philosophical approaches and experimental techniques available with special regard to UHMWPE.

As with many problems having to do with common sense reasoning, the scale and complexity of the formalizations that are required are beyond the traditional techniques of philosophical logic.