philosophical discussion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphilosophicalanddiscussion
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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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discussion
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskʌʃ.ən/us/dɪˈskʌʃ.ən/
the activity in which people talk about something and tell each other their ideas ...
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This does not make them unfit forphilosophicaldiscussion.
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It occurs a lot in thephilosophicaldiscussionof the ethics of population.
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We close with a briefphilosophicaldiscussionof postmodernism and reductionism.
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First, there is very littlephilosophicaldiscussionof epistemological issues in the practice of building novel applications for existing theories.
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This is becoming an interestingphilosophicaldiscussion.
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It was a purely personal andphilosophicaldiscussion.
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Perhaps we may have thatphilosophicaldiscussionon another occasion.
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We could have aphilosophicaldiscussionabout the precise difference.
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Needs-meeting is the daily bread of moral practice, as it were, and it contrasts with the haute cuisine puzzles that dominatephilosophicaldiscussion.
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Only when such a dialogue is carried further, can the gap between thephilosophicaldiscussionon inequality and its measurement be effectively closed.
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A morephilosophicaldiscussionof how religious traditions can respond to competing claims to authority might have been rather more useful at this point.
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Chapter 4 helpfully prepares the way for that morephilosophicaldiscussionby outlining, in fairly abstract terms, the range of possible responses to this notion of theological paradox.
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I do not think that it would be helpful to take thisphilosophicaldiscussionany further.
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I am not going into a semantic andphilosophicaldiscussionon the difference.
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We could have a great deal ofphilosophicaldiscussionabout that, but not tonight.
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This is not aphilosophicaldiscussionof the price we ought to pay.
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Out of that high-poweredphilosophicaldiscussion, two brilliant ideas emerge.
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That leads us intophilosophicaldiscussion, but firms are able to withdraw their services to me.
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There is nothing like aphilosophicaldiscussionon poverty among those who have never suffered it.
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They are as much our responsibility as anyphilosophicaldiscussionabout upholding the rule of law.
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It would be a very longphilosophicaldiscussionto decide just how different.
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Continuousphilosophicaldiscussionaimed at truth.
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Philosophicaldiscussionof forms of representation dominates the discussion.
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