Example sentences for: philosopher

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

  • To Sheehy, Dukakis and Reagan and Hillary Clinton are case studies, just like the ones laid out in Passages : Rosalyn, the Jewish-American princess and wife who had to flee to Marin County to find herself; Mia, who enslaved herself to a saintly philosopher and had to divorce him to find herself; Donald Babcock, the Hotchkiss and Yale graduate who unconsciously emulated his father in everything he did, and who, Sheehy implied, had damn well better go through a crisis in order to find himself, and soon.

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

  • 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.

  • To quote the German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey: "Autobiography is the highest and most instructive form in which the understanding of life comes before us."

  • Neuharth, it turns out, is a more important 20th-century philosopher than anyone expected.


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