philosophizing
present participle ofphilosophize
philosophize
verb[I]
mainlydisapproving(UKusuallyphilosophise)uk/fɪˈlɒs.ə.faɪz/us/fɪˈlɑː.sə.faɪz/totalkfor alongtimeaboutsubjectssuch as themeaningoflife:
Students, shecomplained, had nothingbetterto do thanspendwholedaysphilosophizingaboutthenatureoftruth.
Informal talking & conversation
- badinage
- banter
- bantering
- bants
- bloviate
- bull session
- buzz
- catch
- catch up withsomeone
- chinwag
- chit-chat
- discourse
- exchange
- heart-to-heart
- intercourse
- pass
- ultra-casual
- understand
- vox pop
- word-of-mouth
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In fact, is it not used to teach apprentice philosophers that they must view all learnable philosophies as hindrances to a pure innerphilosophizing?
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Philosophizingwith inner-city students was one of the most rewarding experiences of my academic career.
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There are few abstracts, nophilosophizingother than the occasional cynical aphorism.
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Coleman here threatens to slide from interpretation of an actual practice into pure analyticphilosophizingabout an ideal form of law.
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A reason for studying philosophy is that inphilosophizingone learns how to raise new questions, ' how to problematize what we usually take for granted ' (449).
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When he is not selling drugs he is reminiscing of his childhood andphilosophizingabout a world he feels he is not a part of.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nevertheless, in the fourth paralogism, there is a great deal ofphilosophizingabout the self that goes beyond the mere refutation of idealism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He railed against what he perceived as overly complexphilosophizingwhich served only to demean humanity and ultimately lead to fatalism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Yet his duties, e.g., in critiques and self-criticism sessions and in guerilla warfare, left him little time for personalphilosophizing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Later in life he became an author,philosophizingabout politics and life.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trolls believe in a heaven located underground, possibly because of aphilosophizingtroll's tendency to become part of the landscape.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thisphilosophizinggained only a small audience and the program was cancelled at midseason, although selected episodes were rerun the following summer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As a result, the best philosophical idea directly equals the one producing the most subsequentphilosophizing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Halliburton's books, free of gratuitousphilosophizingor advocacy of a single point of view, were meant for the general reading public.
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