philosophical principle

collocation in English

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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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principle
noun
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/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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To no other philosopher has it fallen, during his lifetime, to have his philosophical principles so vividly and so terribly tested.
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There are philosophical principles involved, but his training is not mired in technicalities.
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The term is also used to describe some theological concepts such as disbelief or idolatry, or a rejection of strong social or philosophical principles.
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Some examples of this include cosmological and philosophical principles of the concepts like two are one and nature vanquishes nature.
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He formed the opinion that mathematical and philosophical principles should be applied to the drainage of low-lying regions.
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This is why it is much easier to determine whether aphilosophicalprincipleis true than to determine the extent of its validity.
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But was this exclusion based onphilosophicalprincipleor on the contingent state of science?
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Yet this is precisely what determines what level of generality we can attribute to aphilosophicalprinciplegained from a certain experiential fact.
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The first is that there is always likely to be some indeterminacy betweenphilosophicalprincipleand public policy.
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I have never been one to consider the separation of powers a historicalphilosophicalprinciple; rather it is a basic principle of democracy.
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My amendment reflects the liberalphilosophicalprincipleof the protection of minorities or potential minorities.
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The principle of sufficient reason is a powerful and controversialphilosophicalprinciplestipulating that everything must have a reason or cause.
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It is a powerful and controversialphilosophicalprinciplestipulating that everything must have a reason or cause.
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The first were canonical texts that contained the philosophical principles and practical guidelines for the construction of the geometrical models used for saving the phenomena.
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Lazarus notes the widely acceptedphilosophicalprinciplethat happiness depends on the background psychological status of the person... and can not be well predicted without reference to one's expectations.
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Then where do the errors relating to the scope of validity of philosophical principles come from?
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This question depends on our answer to another, more general, epistemological question: where does our knowledge about philosophical principles come from in the first place?
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The frequency of erroneously overextending or overly limiting the scope of philosophical principles is due to the inherent risk of recklessness or timidity in inductive generalizations.
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In a resolution, it declared that it should inculcate in the workers the economic and philosophical principles of anarchocommunism.
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