philosophical position

collocation in English

meaningsofphilosophicalandposition

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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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position
noun
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/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofphilosophicalandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Political liberalism must stake out aphilosophicalpositionthat is itself tolerant of other philosophical positions.
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If that was the rational,philosophicalpositionthen, it should be the rational,philosophicalpositionnow.
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I understand hisphilosophicalposition.
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I think that that is an erroneousphilosophicalposition.
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It is no criticism of a controversialphilosophicalpositionthat the defender of that position needs a good argument for it.
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Our attempt is to show that from a pragmatist viewpoint the prospects of cultural interchange are different from what one might think from hisphilosophicalposition.
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I find that, as aphilosophicalposition, deeply unsatisfactory and offensive.
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And on those opinions will differ because of people's religious outlook and their generalphilosophicalposition.
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I argue instead for a third position, in which we recognise that all ideas demand scrutiny and critique, since anyphilosophicalpositioncould be put to use in harmful ways.
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There, the issue was not so much the dominance of positivism as aphilosophicalposition, as it was the almost ubiquitous association of the 'scientific method' with socialist ambitions.
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These statements, however self-evident and convenient they may seem, are unfortunately not very helpful when it comes to telling students (and others) what phenomenology as aphilosophicalpositionis about.
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In contrast, psychopathology usually adopts aphilosophicalpositionof realism (in the form of dualism or materialism), which assumes that the world we perceive around us is an objective reality.
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My moral/philosophicalpositionis that of an anarchist.
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Thisphilosophicalpositionforms the basis of constitutional economics.
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Itsphilosophicalpositionis one of scientific skepticism.
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Others hold that pantheism is a non-religiousphilosophicalposition.
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From whateverphilosophicalpositionit is approached it is riddled with inconsistencies and anomalies; and if not totally unworkable, it certainly cannot work well.
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Thisphilosophicalpositionis, in fact, the very subject matter of constitutional economics.
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All these planets constituted an infinite number of inhabited worlds, aphilosophicalpositionknown as cosmic pluralism.
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The term humanist also describes thephilosophicalpositionof humanism, which some antihumanist scholars in the humanities refuse.
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The attention and scrutiny increased the friends of the evolutionists'philosophicalposition, and brought it closer to mainstream ascendancy.
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Aphilosophicalpositionthat can be embodied in a formal logic has been shown to be coherent, not correct.
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This prominently results in enunciating a largerphilosophicalposition, namely the ontological oneness of poetry and film.
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Aphilosophicalpositionon science was not thought by all researchers to be intellectually superior to applied methods.
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That is a perfectly respectablephilosophicalpositionto adopt, but it is equally respectable to say that when we take away people's livelihoods, compensation should be paid as of right.
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