philosophical concept

collocation in English

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philosophical
adjective
uk
/ˌfɪl.əˈsɒf.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌfɪl.əˈsɑː.fɪ.kəl/
relating to the study or writing ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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It has disproved the notion that elderly patients cannot understand aphilosophicalconceptsuch as existential well-being.
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Thephilosophicalconceptof dependent moral status thus makes a crucial appeal to the ethical principle of beneficence.
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Impasse ensues when ' covenant' is elevated to the level of aphilosophicalconcept.
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In the history of philosophy, understood as a branch of intellectual history, the persona of the philosopher is introduced in opposition to thephilosophicalconceptof the subject of knowledge.
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Autonomy is not an irreduciblephilosophicalconceptbut rather an empirically definable construct concerning the processes through which behavioral propensities are coordinated, regulated, and unified in action and experience.
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I thought that liberalism was an individually basedphilosophicalconceptand that one's responsibilities did not stop at the national borders.
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It is aphilosophicalconcept, more valuable in intellectual or theological disputations than as a guide to decisions.
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I do not attempt to argue what to me is thephilosophicalconceptabout the point at which life begins.
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She did not attempt to equate the immediate needs of the poorest to somephilosophicalconcept.
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Division and exclusion certainly give rise to war; union and thephilosophicalconceptof union instead promote important goals of peace.
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However, the question is not the validity of thephilosophicalconcept, but whether it provides an appropriate foundation for the creation of a serious new criminal offence.
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Freedom is a theoretical concept, aphilosophicalconcept; however, it is much more than that.
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Not to be confused with thephilosophicalconceptontology, or the medical terms oncology or odontology.
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His current research focuses primarily on thephilosophicalconceptof the reconciliation of border transgression in the context of the paradigm.
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Economic sociology arose as a new approach to the analysis of economic phenomena, emphasizing class relations and modernity as aphilosophicalconcept.
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Eliade called this concept the eternal return (distinguished from thephilosophicalconceptof eternal return).
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As aphilosophicalconcept, goodness might represent a hope that natural love be "continuous, expansive," and "all-inclusive".
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Thephilosophicalconceptof (scientific) structuralism is related to that of (epistemic) structural realism.
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National identity is an ethical andphilosophicalconceptwhereby all humans are divided into groups called nations.
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