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Philosophical in sentence

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She was able to see the vectors and trend lines and intentions long before any of us and understand what was going to happen and made a philosophical decision to attack in a peace game.
Now she used a small war to avert a larger war, so we stopped and had a very good philosophical discussion about whether that was right, conditional good, or not right.
A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe, which is held by the vast majority of top American scientists and probably the majority of the intelligentsia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public.
We're right in the thick of it, this philosophical thicket.
A literal, simple English translation would be equal generosity, but the deep philosophical meaning is caring, together, for one another.
It has this bizarre, ongoing philosophical project of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or prevent cancer.
You immerse yourself in the water, and a physical action backs up a philosophical idea.
And this is not just philosophical, it's already known, that chemicals like diethylstilbestrol and estrogen, PCBs, DDT cross the placenta and effectively determine the likelihood of developing breast cancer and obesity and diabetes already when the baby's in the womb.
This is not a philosophical statement, this is just science based in physics, chemistry and biology.
Playing this toy will bring up philosophical questions in you.
The first is that it lives up to the philosophical promise of open-source.
Now, I tell you all of this not to convince you that it's great that open-source programmers now have a tool that supports their philosophical way of working, although I think that is great.
In the Cambridge winter of 1812 and 1813, the four met for what they called philosophical breakfasts.
The members of the philosophical breakfast club disagreed.
The philosophical breakfast club changed that, working together.
The members of the philosophical breakfast club helped form a number of new scientific societies, including the British Association.
On the advice of the philosophical breakfast club, the British Association began to use the extra money generated by its meetings to give grants for research in astronomy, the tides, fossil fish, shipbuilding, and many other areas.
So the philosophical breakfast club helped invent the modern scientist.
And I'll just say one more maybe philosophical thing to end with, which is weird for a scientist.
Well, it's a curiously neglected subject, both in our scientific and our philosophical culture.
Sorry to use philosophical terminology here, but when it's secreted at the axon end-plates of the motor neurons, a whole lot of wonderful things happen in the ion channels and the damned arm goes up.
And does it need a chemical cure or a philosophical cure?"
Few of us today feel any need to put forth a rigorous philosophical argument as to why slavery is wrong or public hangings or beating children.
And by the way, our special aversion to the risk of truly existential disasters depends on a philosophical and ethical question, and it's this: Consider two scenarios.
And my professor at Columbia, Sidney Morgenbesser, a great philosophical wag, when I said to him, "Professor Morgenbesser, why is there something rather than nothing?"
But today, I'm going to use a different approach, one that is inspired by these two initiatives here, a harmonic one and a philosophical one.
Other plays use similarly fantastic scenarios to skewer topical situations, such as in "Clouds," where Aristophanes mocked fashionable philosophical thinking.
The hero Strepsiades enrolls in Socrates’s new philosophical school, where he learns how to prove that wrong is right and that a debt is not a debt.
Now, finally, if somebody tells you that looking for alien microbes is not cool because you cannot have a philosophical conversation with them, let me show you why and how you can tell them they're wrong.
Like a lot of the couples we met, they weren't especially philosophical about their early choices.
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