Sentence examples for philosophical word from inspiring English sources

And Ms. Angelou had a last philosophical word in "On Maturity".

Every cloud.... 1.00pm: Mrs Rosen: "A fat woman like me can't climb" Cue a quiet philosophical word from Geno and she's shinning up the Xmas tree.

Benjamin clearly relished the extravagance of the younger man's admiration for his magnum opus: "I regard your work on the 'Arcades,' "Adorno wrote in 1935, "as the decisive philosophical word which must find utterance today".

By Richard Brody July 16, 2013 The philosopher Thomas Nagel's new book, "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False," restores the primal force of a great old philosophical word, "metaphysics".

The philosopher Thomas Nagel's new book, "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False," restores the primal force of a great old philosophical word, "metaphysics".

And then later, at the rustic graveyard, after Pa has been lowered in, and has lurched out, and been pushed back in, with a shovel, a rustic gravedigger mutters a philosophical word to you in passing, but you can't make it out, because his beard is just atrocious.

Kenneth Burke considered great imaginative writing "equipment for living," and for Saul Bellow poetic and philosophical words were a "poor boy's arsenal".

Many touching pages are devoted to Calder's courtship of his wife, Louisa, whom he adored but — oddly, given her generally placid and "philosophical" (his word) temperament — nonetheless nicknamed Medusa, and not only because of the beautiful way her long hair curled into snakes when stirred by an ocean breeze.

His texts have ranged from philosophical speculations to word games.

However, such negative views form an equally integral part of the philosophical debate on word meaning.

(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).