Sentence examples for philosophical usage from inspiring English sources

In ordinary philosophical usage, it is the concept that is the category, and the definitions define, in various ways, that concept.

This strict usage is also the most frequent philosophical usage.

Philosophical usage of the word evokes phenomenological notions of intentionality: what a work is directed at or points toward.

A considerable obstacle to understanding contemporary philosophical usage of the term, however, is that the notion does not seem to be a unitary one.

(In more traditional philosophical usage the word 'nominalism' refers instead to the view that there are no universals. See Burgess & Rosen 1997, pp. 13 25 and the entry on abstract objects).

Nor does the term "belief", in standard philosophical usage, imply any uncertainty or any extended reflection about the matter in question (as it sometimes does in ordinary English usage).

This chapter presents the main argument for contextualism: the argument from the ordinary, non-philosophical usage of "knows". Both the features of ordinary usage that support contextualism and the reasons why these features provide such strong support are scrutinized.

The philosophical discourse, and common usage as reflected in dictionary definitions, leave an overlap and confusion among the four phenomena of integrity, morality, ethics, and legality.

He tries to develope a project on the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice concerning the Philosophical impact of the usage of automatic theorem prover during his stay at the UC Berkeley.

In Edwards' opinion, libertarianism's specious aura of plausibility is grounded in a systematic confusion of "philosophical" and "vulgar" (ordinary) usage.

(See Weinstein, 2006, for a philosophical discussion of the usage of anthropic reasoning in string theory, including an ambiguity in the meaning of 'typicality' in this context; Azhar, 2013, further develops this discussion).