philosophical context

collocation in English

meaningsofphilosophicalandcontext

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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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context
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.tekst/us
/ˈkɑːn.tekst/
the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help ...
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Examplesofphilosophical context

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In aphilosophicalcontext, the word usually has the stronger meaning that transcendental issues are independent of our natural and experiential existence.
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Bringing these ideas together, it is possible to gain a general understanding of thephilosophicalcontext of an inherent approach to the perception of landscape.
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However, for good or ill, thephilosophicalcontextwithin which the sound object was originally theorised is quite generally neglected.
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Dyck's paper gives a detailed description of the historical mathematical andphilosophicalcontext.
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Mowat offers a very interesting analysis of the cultural andphilosophicalcontextof the emergence of spirituality related to sociological aspects influencing gerontological thought.
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First of all, some comments about thephilosophicalcontextof these challenges: they are intended to be critical challenges to philosophy, not to history, cultural anthropology, or the social sciences.
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The field of science studies is an interdisciplinary research area that seeks to situate scientific expertise in a broad social, historical, andphilosophicalcontext.
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The term is also sometimes used in a less scientific context or aphilosophicalcontext.
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His efforts to re-define qigong without a religious orphilosophicalcontextproved to be acceptable to the ruling government.
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Each religion or philosophy needs to be understood in its historical, social, linguistic andphilosophicalcontext.
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In a certainphilosophicalcontext, death can be seen as the ultimate existential moment in one's life.
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Huxley used it mainly in aphilosophicalcontext.
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Averroes's concept of metaphysics will be investigated in the historical andphilosophicalcontextof competing ideas.
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This reminder is important as these terms, when used in moral philosophical contexts, tend to pertain to naturalism.
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Of course, the theological and philosophical contexts in which these three individuals worked were very different; and there is a risk of anachronism in comparing them.
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