noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
philosopher's stone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
famous
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She also has an aunt who as a girl in Oxford knew several famous philosophers .
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Among the elite who rose out of its membership was the exceedingly influential and famous philosopher Aristotle.
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In fact most of the most famous Athenian philosophers and writers were critics and opponents of the democracy.
great
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The great philosophers have always produced such a person-oriented account at least for those whose education was thought to matter.
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In a way, scientists have a great advantage over philosophers and theologians.
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Nietzsche is hardly read now as a serious philosopher and his influence on writers and artists was always greater than on philosophers.
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Salmon had at one point actually hinted that the great philosopher Henri Bergson might write a preface for the exhibition.
moral
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A chief example of these moral philosophers is R.M. Hare.
natural
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They are, in fact, just the kind of thing the natural philosopher might be interested in.
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Coupled with his close association with medicine, it explains why he decided to follow the career of scientist and natural philosopher .
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When natural philosophers referred to laws of nature, they were not glibly choosing that metaphor.
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Galileo was no sailor, but he knew of the longitude problem-as did every natural philosopher of his day.
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He also denies the argument of the natural philosophers that heavy bodies are attracted toward the center of the earth.
political
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Side-by-side with the political philosophers was the work of the sociologists, represented in Britain most eminently by Ralf Dahrendorf.
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Even among economists and political philosophers , public services rarely lose their connotation of burden.
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Thought himself something of a political philosopher .
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It notes disagreements and differences among both political philosophers and teachers.
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But remember the opinion of John Stuart Mill, a political philosopher much respected by the early Economist.
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Plato can reasonably be thought of as the most radically and implacably anti-democratic of all political philosophers .
■ VERB
write
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But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude.
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Salmon had at one point actually hinted that the great philosopher Henri Bergson might write a preface for the exhibition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the ancient Greek philosophers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Child was of course accepting a degree of relativism which was usually an anathema to philosophers.
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Ink wasn't advocating Bott as a philosopher .
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Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory.
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The philosopher , who had told me earlier he was a back-sliding Episcopalian, glanced at me apprehensively.
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This explains why so many philosophers have supported theoretical hedonism.