Sentence examples for subsequent philosophers from inspiring English sources

It was the assumption that existence is a predicate that has, in the view of most subsequent philosophers, proved fatal to the argument.

Although treated with respect, these works had markedly less impact upon subsequent philosophers than his early works in logic and the philosophy of mathematics, and they are generally regarded as inferior by comparison.

Subsequent philosophers who were not followers of Descartes also adopted the strategy of investigating the knower.

The very idiosyncrasy of this combination has meant that few subsequent philosophers have been convinced by it.

Broad's claim (a) was vindicated by the fact that McTaggart's argument has received serious attention from most subsequent philosophers who pondered the metaphysics of time.

Leibniz's vision may have been absurdly ambitious, but the ideal was to influence many subsequent philosophers, most notably, Frege and Russell.

In the 1950's the biologist J. H Woodger and the philosopher Morton Beckner both published major works on the philosophical of biology (Woodger 1952; Beckner 1959), but these did not give rise to a subsequent philosophical literature.

It is sufficient to note here that, as a result of these problems, most subsequent analytic philosophers have been wary of appealing directly to the principle.

What is clearly true, however, is that he very often develops Aristotelian theses in a manner betraying a willingness to abandon those features of Aristotelianism which were to come in for the harshest treatment by philosophers subsequent to him.

Indeed, long before 1930, when the Circle's Manifesto, "Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis", appeared, Schlick had already made contributions to scientific epistemology which exerted a profound influence on subsequent generations of philosophers (Neurath 1973, Ch. 9).

The idea that Parmenides' arguments so problematized the phenomenon of change as to make developing an adequate theoretical account of it the central preoccupation of subsequent Presocratic natural philosophers is a commonplace of modern historical narratives.