traditional philosophy

collocation in English

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traditional
adjective
uk
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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philosophy
noun
uk
/fɪˈlɒs.ə.fi/us
/fɪˈlɑː.sə.fi/
the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of the real world and existence, the use and limits of knowledge, and the principles of ...
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(Definition oftraditionalandphilosophyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For example, candidates often talk about the other party's issues by highlighting dimensions of that issue that are consonant with their party'straditionalphilosophy.
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It is child-centered philosophy versustraditionalphilosophy.
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They all seem to agree that this so-called once-for-all review of reviews is no more than a routine re-examination within thetraditionalphilosophy.
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He sees pragmatism as providing a unifying and reconstructive approach totraditionalphilosophyissues.
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He accepted the effort to surpasstraditionalphilosophywith logical innovations that inform the sciences.
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On any showing this was a disparate group, seemingly unlinked by any common background oftraditionalphilosophyor ethics beyond a general pity for the childless couple.
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With this project, he hoped to move beyond what he took to be failures oftraditionalphilosophyand metaphysics.
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Some feminists have also particularly attacked the aggressive argumentative style oftraditionalphilosophyas being male-focused and patriarchal in nature.
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Apart from that, they denied the soundness of metaphysics andtraditionalphilosophyand asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed meaningless.
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No longer crusading to revisetraditionalphilosophyinto a new "scientific philosophy", they became respectable members of a new philosophy subdiscipline, "philosophy of science".
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Integrating human being into nature (tianrenheyi) is deemed as the ultimate goal intraditionalphilosophyso human being is part of nature indeed.
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They had a verytraditionalphilosophy, one which did not look to any of the reforms past caliphates had attempted to institute.
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