modern philosopher

collocation in English

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modern
adjective
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/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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philosopher
noun[C]
uk
/fɪˈlɒs.ə.fər/us
/fɪˈlɑː.sə.fɚ/
someone who studies or writes about the meaning ...
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The attraction is the word "independent"which, in the language of themodernphilosopher, is a"hurrah"word rather than a"boo" word.
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His attitude towards mostmodernphilosopherbecame markedly negative and apologetic.
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This caricature was buttressed by the reflections of many major early modern philosophers on the merits of their predecessors.
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The volume includes a good deal that will interest modern philosophers of religion as well as scholars of medieval philosophy.
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I hope that that is a consideration that modern philosophers have well in mind.
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Other modern philosophers have generally used less specific definitions.
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This apparent ability does not guarantee that the account is veridical at any one time, of course, and most modern philosophers of science are fallibilists.
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His theory is also being explored by some modern philosophers as a precursor to evolutionary theory and modern evolutionary psychology.
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Some modern philosophers think that freedom refers to whatever conditions are involved in choosing or acting in such a way as to be morally responsible.
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Although popular culture often uses jealousy and envy as synonyms, modern philosophers and psychologists have argued for conceptual distinctions between jealousy and envy.
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Modern philosophers understood it only too well when they asserted that man's essence consisted in spontaneity.
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This argument is criticized by some modern philosophers on the grounds that it allegedly derives a conclusion about what is true from a premise about what people know.
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Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.
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Most modern philosophers of mind adopt either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.
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Among modern philosophers of mind, the majority view seems to be that the first of these two assertions is false, but that the second is true.
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Many modern philosophers of mind adopt either a "reductive" or "non-reductive physicalist" position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.
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Modern philosophers talk of ambiguity.
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