philosophical foundation

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philosophical
adjective
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/ˌfɪl.əˈsɒf.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌfɪl.əˈsɑː.fɪ.kəl/
relating to the study or writing ...
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foundation
noun
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/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us
/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when an organization, state, etc. ...
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But one could well imagine that they could occur, should we experience the ruptures of a major economic depression combined with a theory of ethics without durablephilosophicalfoundation.
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Many theological explanations thus tend to lack or avoid a logical orphilosophicalfoundation.
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Surely the action will be worthy of admiration only if it will havephilosophicalfoundationand anthropological objective.
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Thephilosophicalfoundationof the school is committed to the complex symbiotic relationships of education, research, theory, and practice.
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Nor would it be necessary to examine thephilosophicalfoundationor the precise content of the right.
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The ground palette is both aphilosophicalfoundationand an aesthetic way of thinking that attempts to distill language and ideas down to their essences.
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Fortunately, however, it is not necessary to accept the philosophical foundations of the programme in order to get something from the book.
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Controversies in science can be over matters of fact or matters of theory; but they can also be over philosophical foundations, methodology, priority, or fraud.
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What is surprising is the scant attention paid to the philosophical foundations that justify and motivate this argument.
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Moreover, e these reasons are not only superficially separate and part of the same argument, but actually stem from distinct (indeed conflicting) philosophical foundations.
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The paper begins with a brief review of the philosophical foundations underlying the tension between ' external ' and ' internal ' methodology.
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Methodologically, making them explicit and tracing their provenance back to the philosophical foundations of modernity allows theorists to recognize and criticize their presuppositions more incisively.
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The infelicitous implications of their philosophical foundations manifest themselves throughout the article.
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Morality, detached from its theological or philosophical foundations, would be no more than a series of arbitrary commands, with little claim on the allegiance of the heart or the mind.
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The club was founded in 1949 by science and engineering students interested in the philosophical foundations of their disciplines.
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Literary references are also utilized throughout the collected stories to stress the philosophical foundations of the character.
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The theoretical area of his work is centered on exploring and understanding the theoretical and philosophical foundations of psychology.
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Philosophy of psychopathology is mainly involved in the epistemological reflection about the implicit philosophical foundations of psychiatric classification and evidence-based psychiatry.
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His research focuses on the systematics of polychaetes and on the philosophical foundations of evolutionary theory.
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He has argued in a number of works for the cultural, societal and philosophical foundations of security.
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