Example sentences for: philosopher

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

  • Ian Hacking, a philosopher who has written acutely about child abuse, has observed that America seems to be the only country with abuse legislation specific to children.

  • But his heart is clearly with the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who wrote: "Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony."

  • His friendships with the likes of writer and critic Georges Bataille, philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson were formative in ways that he either fails to note or misleadingly acknowledges.

  • The French philosopher Pierre Bayle, for example, set out in the 1690s to produce a vast reference work, Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary ), whose sole purpose was to point out the mistakes in all other previously published reference works.

  • If our software is occasionally too fat, we developers fall back on the same excuse philosopher Blaise Pascal offered three centuries ago for his verbose letters: "I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."


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