Synonym: calm, reasonable, wise. Similar words: sophisticated, demographic, ethical, typical, radical, logical, musical, medical. Meaning: ['fɪlə'sɑfɪkl /-'sɒf-] adj. 1. of or relating to philosophy or philosophers 2. characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment 3. characteristic of or imbued with the attitude of a philosopher or based on philosophy.
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31. Apart from philosophical essays and translations, May Sinclair's early literary production covered poetry and short stories.
32. He was most concerned that philosophical solutions to problems could not be verified with out experimental work.
33. In treating such a philosophical topic, the underlying principles should have been expanded on, rather than just being described.
34. In the philosophical tradition there have been two tendencies with respect to epistemological concerns and concerns about the social order.
35. It hardly needs saying that how this story is told will depend upon philosophical argument.
36. Carry over the assumptions of philosophical positivism and the basic notions of revelation will become nonsense.
37. The psychopath, even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism.
38. Such a religion might also contain certain philosophical ideas, ideas which could be deduced from apriori reason.
39. He espoused them both, simultaneously, in a kind of philosophical bigamy.
40. My answer to this point will be more philosophical than empirical.
41. And at least he could rely on Freeborn to answer it without initiating a philosophical discussion about the basis of the self.
42. Another more general philosophical argument is closely linked with the theory-dependence of observation.
43. People with a strong spiritual or philosophical belief system are more likely to remain healthy.
44. However, these pauses were considerably longer for the philosophical section of the passage than for the description of the countryside.
45. This broader problem touched on such philosophical conundrums as who we are and what our place is in the universe.
46. I suggest that it is humanism - both religious and secular - that is the dominant philosophical adversary.
47. Indeed, there exists an equally strong, and in this context often contradictory, philosophical premiss, that of paternalism.
48. The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical.
49. This aesthetic can obscure Formal art appreciation as it often resorts to exclusivist ideas about painting and sculpture which are highly philosophical.
50. They are each used here to gesture at a range of philosophical positions.
51. One earnest young man asked De Mille about the philosophical meaning of his films.
52. The philosophical underpinnings of creation science automatically place it in a very different realm from natural science.
53. At the same time,(www.Sentencedict.com) the incident showed his liability to argue from passion and personal animus to philosophical or political generality.
54. The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values.
55. In the other three novels frothy dialogue and sparkling wit tend to overshadow the deeper philosophical issues at stake.
56. The immediate effects of that philosophical rationalism were felt only by the intelligentsia.
57. This lasting antipathy coexisted in his mind with a rare mastery of philosophical debate and classical literature.
58. I shall now draw some general morals from this sketch of the structure of Peirce's philosophical thought.
59. We therefore continually try to correct one philosophical perspective about it against another.
60. They have paid attention to the academic, moral and philosophical roots of the movement.
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