Example sentences for: philosophers

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

  • If he had kept on reading, as Pollitt did, he would have encountered reasoned arguments by philosophers and historians challenging each and every Freudian notion that he considers self-evident.

  • With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (“the knowledge which is not knowledge”), and the cosmic flow known as “the Way,” Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.

  • Famous Edinburgh residents of this period — later known as the Scottish Enlightenment — included David Hume, author of A Treatise of Human Nature and one of Britain’s greatest philosophers; Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, a pioneer in the study of political economy; and Joseph Black, the scientist who discovered the concept of latent heat.

  • Philosophers have correctly pointed out that we cannot actually imagine what it is like to perceive the world through other animals' sense organs [38].

  • I will leave that question for the philosophers and politicians.


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