Example sentences for: philosopher

How can you use “philosopher” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As the American philosopher Quentin Smith has pointed out, "If God created the universe with the aim of making it animate, it is illogical that he would have created as its first state something whose natural evolution would lead with high probability only to inanimate states ." The only way God could have ensured the appearance of creatures in his own image was by repeatedly intervening and making adjustments to steer the evolution of the world away from lifeless disaster.

  • The cover story mourns the death of Oxford philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin.

  • There's a conservative case for parties, too, articulated by the 18 th century philosopher Edmund Burke.

  • James Gleick in his 1992 biography, Genius, the Life and Science of Richard Feynman , quoted the Harvard philosopher, W.V. Quine: I think that for scientific purposes the best we can do is give up the notion of knowledge as a bad job...

  • The French philosopher François La Rochefoucauld famously praised hypocrisy as the socially useful "homage that vice pays to virtue."


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