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philosopherphi‧los‧o‧pher /fəˈlɒsəfə $ -ˈlɑːsəfər/ ●○○ AWL noun [countable]   - the ancient Greek philosophers
- Child was of course accepting a degree of relativism which was usually an anathema to philosophers.
- Ink wasn't advocating Bott as a philosopher.
- Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory.
- The philosopher, who had told me earlier he was a back-sliding Episcopalian, glanced at me apprehensively.
- This explains why so many philosophers have supported theoretical hedonism.
► Philosophycausation, nouncosmogony, noundeconstruction, noundeterminism, noundialectic, nounexistentialism, nounfree will, nounhumanism, nounhypothesis, nounidealism, nouninduction, nouninductive, adjectivelateral thinking, nounMarxism, nounmaterialism, nounmetaphysical, adjectivemetaphysics, nounnihilism, nounontology, nounphilosopher, nounphilosophical, adjectivephilosophize, verbpositivism, nounpostulate, nounprecept, nounsolipsism, nounsyllogism, nounTao, nounTaoism, nounthinker, nounthought, nountranscendentalism, nounutilitarian, adjectiveutilitarianism, nounyang, nounyin, nounyin and yang, noun ADJECTIVE► famous· She also has an aunt who as a girl in Oxford knew several famous philosophers.· Among the elite who rose out of its membership was the exceedingly influential and famous philosopher Aristotle.· In fact most of the most famous Athenian philosophers and writers were critics and opponents of the democracy. ► great· The great philosophers have always produced such a person-oriented account at least for those whose education was thought to matter.· In a way, scientists have a great advantage over philosophers and theologians.· Nietzsche is hardly read now as a serious philosopher and his influence on writers and artists was always greater than on philosophers.· Salmon had at one point actually hinted that the great philosopher Henri Bergson might write a preface for the exhibition. ► moral· A chief example of these moral philosophers is R.M. Hare. ► natural· They are, in fact, just the kind of thing the natural philosopher might be interested in.· Coupled with his close association with medicine, it explains why he decided to follow the career of scientist and natural philosopher.· When natural philosophers referred to laws of nature, they were not glibly choosing that metaphor.· Galileo was no sailor, but he knew of the longitude problem-as did every natural philosopher of his day.· He also denies the argument of the natural philosophers that heavy bodies are attracted toward the center of the earth. ► political· Side-by-side with the political philosophers was the work of the sociologists, represented in Britain most eminently by Ralf Dahrendorf.· Even among economists and political philosophers, public services rarely lose their connotation of burden.· Thought himself something of a political philosopher.· It notes disagreements and differences among both political philosophers and teachers.· But remember the opinion of John Stuart Mill, a political philosopher much respected by the early Economist.· Plato can reasonably be thought of as the most radically and implacably anti-democratic of all political philosophers. VERB► write· But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude.· Salmon had at one point actually hinted that the great philosopher Henri Bergson might write a preface for the exhibition. nounphilosophyphilosopheradjectivephilosophicaladverbphilosophically 1someone who studies and develops ideas about the nature and meaning of existence, truth, good and evil etc:  Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers2someone who thinks deeply about the world, life etc |