Sentence examples for substantive thinker from inspiring English sources
And I suppose you could make the case that under such circumstances, a once-disgraced party elder with a reputation as a substantive thinker could make his triumphant, Toynbean return.
The two men are ideologically poles apart, but perhaps Obama sees a bit of himself in a young, substantive policy thinker.
From this point of view, the substantive histories adopted by existential thinkers as different as Heidegger and Sartre should perhaps be read less as scientific accounts, defensible in third-person terms, than as articulations of the historical situation from the perspective of what that situation is taken to demand, given the engaged commitment of their authors.
His post-anarchism is more substantive than that of earlier thinkers, and has influenced later approaches to the philosophy.
If your political philosophy is directly contrary to your faith and equally dismissive of the best substantive ideas of governance that conservative thinkers have offered, is it little surprise that the Romney, and now Romney/Ryan, are seen as a ticket without substantive idea.
Substantive differences among African and African-descended thinkers have been, and must continue to be, acknowledged and taken into account in the ordering of the field and setting agendas for Africana philosophy.
Although the Aristotelian-Neoplatonic tradition was the source of his intellectual roots and concerns, he was an original thinker who eventually broke with that tradition in many important respects, both substantive and methodological, and cleared part of the way which led to more critical and empirical approaches in the natural sciences.
If the Blair-Brown division was a substantive one, it should be possible to identify significant differences between David and Ed Miliband, once the chief policy thinkers for Blair and Brown.
In his best-selling 1996 polemic, "On Television," Mr. Bourdieu denounced talk-show commentators as "fast thinkers" who substitute "cultural fast food" -- politically sanitized sound bites and cliches -- for substantive argument.
