philosophical sense
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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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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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When it comes to architectural theory, historicism in the strictphilosophicalsenseis surely largely discredited.
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In thephilosophicalsense, we may refer to an ontology as a particular system of categories accounting for a certain vision of the world.
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Of course, the world has got to be high-dimensionally chaotic, in somephilosophicalsense.
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In a metamathematical orphilosophicalsense, however, the emphasis on the system concept was a good anticipation of what was to follow.
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Music may be independent of certain local cultural contexts but not in thisphilosophicalsense.
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There is bound to be a different attitude, in thephilosophicalsense, to many of the problems that present themselves to us.
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It seems that it is now used in that way only in aphilosophicalsense.
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In thephilosophicalsensethat is correct, but care will be needed if theory and practice are not to come into conflict.
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In aphilosophicalsense, the concept of parent-governors is fulfilling that aspect of education.
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The national grid for learning has somehow been separated out from the university for industry and our lifelong learning initiatives, which makes nophilosophicalsense.
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In aphilosophicalsensethis diversion—this window dressing element—is in governmental terms misleading and positively dangerous.
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He is given much of the credit for establishing that biological species are not kinds of organisms, but individuals in aphilosophicalsense.
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Such a core ontology is a key pre-requisite to a more complete foundation ontology, or a more generalphilosophicalsenseof ontology.
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These perspectives do not strictly count as relativist in thephilosophicalsense, because they express agnosticism on the nature of reality and make epistemological rather than ontological claims.
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Reid believed that common sense (in a specialphilosophicalsenseof "sensus communis") is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry.
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