Example sentences for: philosopher

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

  • Edward Caird, theologian and philosopher, in 1877 offered this observation: All phenomena, as perceived, are extensive quanta.

  • This seems like a simple statement, what the linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin termed a constative utterance: a base level of communication, with no metaphor or secondary meanings attached.

  • (Biographies tell us she was fascinated at the time by the ideas of Otto Weininger, a morbid Viennese philosopher who believed women were stupid and corrupt banshees.

  • Critics praise his skill at depicting famous historical figures (philosopher John Locke, architect Christopher Wren) and call his Rashomon -style narrative "baroque and ingenious" (Andrew Miller, the New York Times Book Review ).

  • Defying the two-year French occupation, philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte exhorted the German people to assume their rightful destiny as a nation.


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