unphilosophicallyadv.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 30 Questionlesse these Cavernous retreats are very often the Locall origin's of Wind (where the Poets faign the Kingdome of Æolus) not Unphilosophically alluding to the mode of their Production.

1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 179 I should not easily have believed that any Physician had been..so unphilosophically bred, as to ascribe the cure of Diseases to the Devil.

1706 S. Clarke Disc. Nat. Relig. 331 These latter indeed, explained themselves very weakly and unphilosophically.

1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 68 814 An experiment thus loosely and unphilosophically made.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 141 Believing unphilosophically, as well as dangerously, that there can be any measure..so useful [etc.].

1854 G. P. R. James Ticonderoga III. 43 Sometimes..Woodchuck would talk, neither unphilosophically, nor unlearnedly,..upon a life to come.

1948 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 19 71/1 If man cannot reach decisions philosophically, he will reach them unphilosophically.

2000 Amer. Hist. Rev. 105 638/1 Bohr..had invented the quantum theory of the atom and directed its development until Heisenberg unphilosophically devised quantum mechanics.