Nonetheless, there are a number of conceptual ambiguities surrounding altruism and related concepts in the literature; some of these are purely semantic, others are more substantive.
But if fatalism is true, he demonstrated, we are going to learn that fact only through an argument that draws on something richer and more substantive than the arid, purely logical moves Taylor made.
Some of the critiques are purely aesthetic, but the most important ones are substantive: as planned, the critics argue, the memorial sells the supreme allied commander's greatness short.
But successful though that maneuver is at handling the purely conceptual problem, it runs afoul of a more substantive point, which is that there are cases where we would like to say there is reduction, but in which supervenience is symmetric.
Logic is not purely formal, from Frege's point of view, but rather can provide substantive knowledge of objects and concepts.
Not only is the platonism under discussion not Plato's, platonism as characterized above is a purely metaphysical view: it should be distinguished from other views that have substantive epistemological content.
"Earnest, substantive debates over this or that policy are so often purely illusory, as the only factor that really drives outcomes is the question of who owns and thus controls the political system," Greenwald writes.
These classes of phenomena are to be understood purely in causal terms, and not as the attributes and activities of a substantive self.
It seems false that we can respect persons and at the same time tell them to leave their fundamental commitments behind in public discourse, and it seems false also that some purely rational but still action-guiding component can be separated off from these competing substantive conceptions of the good (see Wolterstorff, "An Engagement with Rorty").
