philosophical literature
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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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literature
noun[U]
uk/ˈlɪt.rə.tʃər/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.tʃɚ/
written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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To make these levels clear they take over fromphilosophicalliteraturea distinction between three kinds of relativism: ontological, epistemological and moral.
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It is striking that one finds little discussion of risk in thephilosophicalliteratureabout the priority view.
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The implicit assumption in most of thephilosophicalliteratureis that the distinctive ideas of the priority view are all to do with histories.
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It remains to be demonstrated whether the referential-attributive distinction, which has figured so prominently in thephilosophicalliterature, is relevant for utterance processing.
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The next chapter refers to the concepts often discussed in thephilosophicalliterature, those of sufficient and necessary conditions.
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But most of the discussion of the priority view in thephilosophicalliteraturestarts by ignoring risk.
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But this suggestion seems to have been ignored by thephilosophicalliteraturewhich is friendly to the priority view.
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This problem has a long history in thephilosophicalliterature.
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By "hermeneutics" he means in the first instance "hermeneutical philosophy," and he finds this genre absent from thephilosophicalliterature.
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Thephilosophicalliteraturediscussing space-time concepts of the fundamental physics is vast, but it is not always accurately considered in metaphysical discussions.
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Inphilosophicalliteraturethere are other designations (with slight variations) used to refer to the same propositional attitude.
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Much of thephilosophicalliteratureapplies the negative approach.
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Thephilosophicalliteratureon the other hand seems to pay more attention to the procedures used by society to determine utility allocations.
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The argument, however, seems quite lame if compared with most realist arguments in thephilosophicalliterature.
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Thephilosophicalliteratureon explanation is enormous, and so some philosophers might object to our announcing that we can boil it down to consideration of just two approaches.
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More generally, "motivational deontologies" or other moral theories that make rightness or wrongness a partial function of actors' mental states have been long propounded within thephilosophicalliterature.
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But while all of the ideas which go into weak ex post prioritarianism are explicit in thephilosophicalliteratureon the priority view, the extended separability principle is not.
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However, from its foundations in thephilosophicalliteratureto present-day psycholinguistic research, the field of pragmatics has taken as its point of departure the spoken word.
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Tungodden offers an economist's perspective on the equality or priority debate, and a principled justification for his perspective that both draws on and illuminates thephilosophicalliterature.
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