Sentence examples for philosophical term from inspiring English sources

Leibniz was the first philosopher to use 'possible world' as a philosophical term of art, but Kripke's and Plantinga's use of the phrase is different from his.

The religious term monotheism is not identical with the philosophical term monism.

I repeated the word "anguish" to myself a few times, but the meaning remained somehow out of reach, as if it were an unfamiliar philosophical term.

It's because colour is a kind of qualia – the philosophical term for the individual bits of subjective experience that each of us have.

And then in the mid-17th century the word emerged as a philosophical term, as the plural of the Latin word "datum", which means "that is given" – a starting point, something on which you can start to build an argument.

Emergence is a notorious philosophical term of art.

It is worth noting that Avicenna himself had written an interpretation of Muhammad's night journey in philosophical terms that runs parallel to what Ibn 'Arabî ascribes to the philosopher here, but the text was in Persian, so Ibn 'Arabî would not have seen it (Heath 1992).

He explains why certain new philosophical terms are deceptive.

In philosophical terms, we have a reductio ad absurdum.

— tend to be framed in theological and philosophical terms.

In "Other Criteria" he laid out his philosophical terms.