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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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more
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My answer to this point will be more philosophical than empirical.
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In fact, the 14-member group will put forward a more philosophical statement.
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Putting aside more philosophical speculations, what does it tell you about the future of, er, your job?
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Or perhaps it is an opportunity to be more philosophical , less clinging, over money?
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A conundrum for minds of a more philosophical cast than mine.
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argument
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Another more general philosophical argument is closely linked with the theory-dependence of observation.
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It hardly needs saying that how this story is told will depend upon philosophical argument .
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These fundamental rights are variously described and vindicated by a variety of philosophical arguments to which we can not do justice here.
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Such philosophical arguments can go on endlessly as is the nature of philosophy.
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What constitutes meaningful is the basis for a philosophical argument .
basis
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If the philosophical basis for these inroads into the general principle is paternalism, what legal bases or justifications are there?
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Mobilizing the media and millions of teachers to explain Article 18 would have meant explaining the philosophical basis of the secular state.
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This, too, offers a philosophical basis for liberalism.
debate
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They do not indulge in philosophical debate on pain or the meaning of a cry.
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Many of us realize that this is a deep philosophical debate about the future of this country.
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This lasting antipathy coexisted in his mind with a rare mastery of philosophical debate and classical literature.
difference
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He will replace Clark, who last week was forced to resign because of philosophical differences with the business-oriented council majority.
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There are no philosophical differences between me and the senator.
discussion
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For meditation, yoga or for a philosophical discussion , try a blend of frankincense, myrrh and cedarwood.
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I use e-mail a lot, and have had many productive philosophical discussions this way.
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This is rather like an attitude one might take to the philosophical discussions about whether we have free will or not.
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And at least he could rely on Freeborn to answer it without initiating a philosophical discussion about the basis of the self.
idea
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Such a religion might also contain certain philosophical ideas , ideas which could be deduced from apriori reason.
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While its philosophical ideas reached every sphere of social life, it is its relationship with the arts that interests us here.
issue
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The strength of the general reason for the ordinary belief depends partly on the resolution of large philosophical issues .
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Neither Jantzen nor McFague really gets to grips with the philosophical issues involved.
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Most recent work is often concerned with philosophical issues within feminism itself.
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Agreement on philosophical issues does not risk endless postponement, as does agreement in the special sciences.
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Nevertheless, some general, if brief, discussion of some of the more directly relevant philosophical issues may help clarify matters.
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In the other three novels frothy dialogue and sparkling wit tend to overshadow the deeper philosophical issues at stake.
position
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Never a department to succumb to philosophical fashions, it continues to represent a wide variety of philosophical positions and approaches.
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They are each used here to gesture at a range of philosophical positions .
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The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory: it can not be tested experimentally.
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There was no single discipline of ecology created in response to a theoretical initiative, or to a particular philosophical position .
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Moreover the ontological reductivist can not state his own philosophical position coherently.
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It is possible to distinguish, albeit rather grossly, between two contrasting philosophical positions regarding the relationship between theory and data.
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Normative theory specifies how things in society ought to be, given a desired set of outcomes and philosophical position .
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He argued that such a philosophical position could not cope with the phenomena of dreams and especially hypnosis.
problem
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Organic farming frequently encounters such philosophical problems .
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There are security issues, there are philosophical problems that I have with it.
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Philosophy Modules have been developed to introduce students to the major philosophical problems .
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There appears to be a philosophical problem here.
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It is a philosophical problem , a fact recognised by scientists themselves on both sides of the argument.
question
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Unlike Searle he admires Derrida, and believes that he is genuinely concerned with major philosophical questions .
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This can not in itself resolve the philosophical questions which underlie the controversy.
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Star Trek raises deep, even philosophical questions in a school panto environment.
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I want now to turn to a less philosophical question about my passage from my armchair to the kitchen.
speculation
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Putting aside more philosophical speculations , what does it tell you about the future of, er, your job?
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The seat of awareness is a subject of philosophical speculation .
system
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This subject is one which all Eastern religious and philosophical systems thoroughly understand.
text
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These aim at implanting basic skills and making students acquainted with some fundamental topics and some classic philosophical texts .
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An examination of Lacanian psychoanalysis will therefore assist in developing my thesis that philosophical texts represent a form of self-construction.
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We can trace the process of self-constituting, meaning-producing activity in the examination of philosophical texts 6.
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Such a view of the human subject requires us to change our interpretations of philosophical texts .
tradition
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The idea that acts of love are inferior to principled acts is a deep-rooted philosophical tradition .
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Out of which great religious or philosophical tradition does the call of compassion come to you?
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The unique features of Bruno's universe arose from an original blend of several philosophical traditions .
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Whether these characterizations apply equally well in all situations for all philosophical traditions is a question that I leave open.
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The feminist criticism of this volume is the more powerful because its contributors come from a variety of philosophical traditions .
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In the philosophical tradition there have been two tendencies with respect to epistemological concerns and concerns about the social order.
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Which means: was there a single philosophical tradition , running from Al-Kindi to Averroes?
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Yes, there was one philosophical tradition .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rousseau's philosophic writings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He will replace Clark, who last week was forced to resign because of philosophical differences with the business-oriented council majority.
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In the philosophical tradition there have been two tendencies with respect to epistemological concerns and concerns about the social order.
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Reagan had amply demonstrated his political creativity and philosophical consistency in his earlier Supreme Court appointments.
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Such philosophical arguments can go on endlessly as is the nature of philosophy.
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The people concerned, however, do not cross over to make a philosophical point.
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This can not in itself resolve the philosophical questions which underlie the controversy.