Sentence examples for speculative system from inspiring English sources

He did not proceed by general speculation and was not concerned with elaborating a great speculative system.

Whereas Bacon's philosophy had been a search for method in science and Descartes's basic aim had been the achievement of scientific certainty, Spinoza's speculative system was one of the most comprehensive of the early modern period.

American process philosopher and theologian Charles Hartshorne, whose speculative system approximates to Whitehead's, displays in print knowledge of Ward's works.

In this paper we use a series of micro-benchmarks to study the relative performance of a speculative system based on the DMTCP checkpoint restart system and compare it against a thread level speculative system.

Perhaps this is better expressed as an opposition to speculative system building and to the idea that there is only one way of systematizing our science than to systematicity as such.

It is important to bear in mind that Bacon's speculative system was his way out of a dilemma which had made it impossible for him to finish his Instauratio Magna.

Mystics have enveloped them in the extravagant prose of speculative systems and in simple folktales.

We highlight the relative merits of each approach and draw some lessons that could be used to guide future developments in speculative systems.

While the problem of philosophy's identity as a discipline of course goes back to Plato, we are faced, in the nineteenth-century German context, with the particular problem of philosophy's relation to the positive sciences, which had completely repudiated and replaced the knowledge-claims of the speculative systems of German Idealism.

In areas like Silicon Valley in the past, and China today, this is about large direct public investments in education, research, technology, as well as publicly funded risk capital going to the most innovative types of businesses, large and small – which are poorly served by a speculative financial system.

Ortega rejected speculative metaphysical systems and, like Cohen, repudiated the approach to epistemology of the natural sciences, with its naturalistic and psychophysical explanations of sensible reality of the "subjective" idealists.