modern thinker

collocation in English

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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thinker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈθɪŋ.kər/us
/ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
someone who considers important subjects or produces ...
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Firstmodernthinkerwho fully analyzed structure and meaning of obligation.
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Their successors tended not to look to earlier modern thinkers for the problems they discussed.
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In the essay he commented on the problems of themodernthinkerafter discovering the relativism in thought and philosophy, discrediting previous philosophers who avoided this difficulty.
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The ideal of being independent from the capricious events of the world was obviously of great importance to a wide variety of early modern thinkers.
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It is not achieved through a struggle with the opposing demand to repudiate nature, as is the case with modern thinkers when they avow the same principles.
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In relation to all these topics and many more this volume provides a clear, abstract account of the most sophisticated debates indulged in by early modern thinkers.
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In any case, it would not have motivated him to the extent that it does modern thinkers.
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The couple surrounded themselves with modern thinkers and various politicians.
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Galileo was one of the first modern thinkers to clearly state that the laws of nature are mathematical.
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Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the philosophy of history or the social sciences of sociology, demography, historiography, cultural history, and economics.
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