philosophical question

collocation in English

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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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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofphilosophicalandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thephilosophicalquestionhere is where an event starts and stops.
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Finally, the authors consider thephilosophicalquestionof the relationship between language and thought.
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Aphilosophicalquestionis involved.
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There is an importantphilosophicalquestionabout the relationships among structure, function, and dynamics in this triad.
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This is aphilosophicalquestionthat, at least for some limited historical purposes, can be left to one side.
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This is an importantphilosophicalquestionon its own and obviously cannot be answered by our data or any other.
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Note that this also addresses thephilosophicalquestionof whether a trait or diagnostic category marks a discrete entity.
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That is an importantphilosophicalquestion.
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This is an interestingphilosophicalquestion.
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That sounds like aphilosophicalquestion.
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That is an interestingphilosophicalquestion.
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It is almost aphilosophicalquestion.
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Aphilosophicalquestionis at stake.
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There is aphilosophicalquestionhere.
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It is a deeplyphilosophicalquestion.
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Behind this there is a largephilosophicalquestion.
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I would like to pose a morephilosophicalquestion.
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That is not an abstract orphilosophicalquestion.
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There is an interestingphilosophicalquestion: when did history begin?
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The perspective allows the traditional notion of knowledge-based teaching and teacher education to be challenged by asking aphilosophicalquestionabout teachers' being.
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This fundamentalphilosophicalquestiontook on quantitative form with the development of probability, and is the basic problem in statistical inference.
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The definition of what is need is an interesting abstract,philosophicalquestion.
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So far, that is aphilosophicalquestionrather than a point of order.
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It is aphilosophicalquestionwhether precedent extends the rules or merely interprets them.
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This is aphilosophicalquestionwhich has been answered many times over the last 100 years.
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