Philosophical

Examples

• This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was referred to as a curiosity in the _Philosophical Transactions_ in 1747. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These, with an explanation of the phenomenon, he communicated in a letter to his friend, Sir John Pringle, which is among his philosophical pieces. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In 1845 there appeared in the _Philosophical Magazine_ a description of what was probably the first incandescent electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• An old philosophical friend of mine was grown, from experience, very cautious in this particular, and carefully avoided any intimacy with such people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I shall be sure to give warning, when I return to a more philosophical way of speaking and thinking. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Roger Bacon's writings are characterized by a philosophical breadth of view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A new philosophical basis is becoming increasingly necessary to socialism--one that may not be truer than the old materialism but that shall simply be more useful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Philosophical Transactions furnish us with abundance of histories of earthquakes, particularly one at Oxford in 1665, by Dr. Wallis and Mr. Boyle. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It outlines his plan for the establishment of the American Philosophical Society. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The philosophical mind of Thales laid hold, no doubt, of some of the essentials of astronomical science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The one grand recipe remains for you--the profound philosophical prescription--the be-all and the end-all of your strange existence upon earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They do not, however, adopt his system of lots, but bring together the best natures, male and female, 'according to philosophical rules. Plato. The Republic.
• As Mr. Weller made this philosophical remark, Mr. Pickwick was aware that his sitting had commenced. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There are many celebrated characters, literary, philosophical, and otherwise, who hold a high reputation on a similar tenure. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Every shade of light and dark, of truth, and of fiction which is the veil of truth, is allowable in a work of philosophical imagination. Plato. The Republic.
• It has been the practice of recent writers to decry the philosophical discussion of the medi?val schoolmen as tedious and futile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1826 Professor Grant, in the concluding paragraph in his well-known paper (Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, vol. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Such, therefore, was the common course of philosophical education in the greater part of the universities in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What Remington missed was what so many reformers are beginning to miss--an underlying philosophical habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Ah--your mind runs off to the philosophical side of it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Upon the philosophical side, these various dualisms culminate in a sharp demarcation of individual minds from the world, and hence from one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We then find in the growing universities of Paris, Oxford, and Bologna an increasing amount of philosophical discussion going on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The observation, however, was put into practical use in his time and long before without a knowledge of its philosophical cause. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The philosophical owner of the universal penknife growled an affirmative. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was quite a couple of centuries before the schools of Alexandria became as important in philosophical discussion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This philosophical naturalist, I may add, has also shown that the muscles in the larvae of certain insects are far from uniform. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I want to know whether your Philosophical Society received the second volume of our Transactions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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