Many definitions of art have been proposed by philosophers and others who have characterized art in terms of mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other values.

Many philosophers say that properties and relations have an abstract existence, and that physical objects have a concrete existence.

Many philosophers have attempted to reduce the number of distinct ontological categories.

Many philosophers have argued that consciousness is a unitary concept that is understood intuitively by the majority of people in spite of the difficulty in defining it.

Many philosophers consider experience to be the essence of consciousness, and believe that experience can only fully be known from the inside, subjectively.

Many physicists and philosophers have objected to the Copenhagen interpretation, both on the grounds that it is non-deterministic and that it includes an undefined measurement process that converts probability functions into non-probabilistic measurements.

Many other philosophers have posited cosmological arguments both before and since Aquinas.

Many philosophers have chosen instead to leave some terms undefined.

Many famous personalities, philosophers, artists and poets fought as hoplites.

Many philosophers strongly oppose this view.

Many philosophers would say surely not, as would common sense.

Many philosophers believe that mathematics is not experimentally falsifiable, and thus not a science according to the definition of Karl Popper.

Many current and recent philosophers — e. g., Daniel Dennett, Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, John Rogers Searle, and Jerry Fodor — operate within a broadly physicalist or materialist framework, producing rival accounts of how best to accommodate mind — functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory, and so on.

Many philosophers have criticized Objectivist ethics.

Many philosophers would disagree, claiming that the term " pessimism " is being abused.

Many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like St. Augustine.

Many philosophers accept that Plantinga successfully solves the logical problem of evil, as he appears to have shown that God and evil are logically compatible, though others demur.

Many philosophers and theologians have expounded and criticized different versions of the teleological argument.

Many philosophers and theologians regard this puzzle about omnipotence as not a very serious problem.

" Many Greek philosophers, especially Platonists, would often describe Sparta as an ideal state, strong, brave, and free from the corruptions of commerce and money.

Many renowned Indian philosophers such as Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Ananda Coomaraswamy and others used the writing of Plotinus in their own texts as a superlative elaboration upon Indian monism, specifically Upanishadic and Advaita Vedantic thought.

Many philosophers have offered critiques of dialectic, and it can even be said that hostility or receptivity to dialectics is one of the things that divides twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy from the so-called " continental " tradition, a divide that only a few contemporary philosophers ( among them, G. H.

Many philosophers dispute whether we are committed to such entities at all.

Many also argue that monopolies tend to be corrupt and inefficient.

Many anarchists also argue that private defense and court agencies would have to have a good reputation in order to stay in business.

Many Austrians also argue that capital allocated to investment goods cannot be quickly augmented to create consumption goods.

Many goals have been argued for art, and aestheticians often argue that some goal or another is superior in some way.

Many nationalist movements, such as the French National Front, Austrian Freedom Party, or the Italian Lego Nord are opposed to globalization, but argue that the alternative to globalization is the protection of the nation-state, sometimes, according to critics, in explicitly racist or fascist terms.

Many members of the movement are also aware of this, and argue that, as long as they have a common opponent, they should march together-even if they don't share exactly the same political vision.

" Many scholars argue that this collection originally consisted of three independent and anonymous prophecies, two of which were subsequently appended to the book of Zechariah ( as what scholars refer to as Deutero-Zechariah ) with the third becoming the book of Malachi.

Many scholars argue that these sophisticated fortifications allowed the east to develop relatively unmolested while Ancient Rome and the west collapsed.

Many modern scholars of liberalism argue that no particularly meaningful distinction between classical and modern liberalism exists.

Many epistemologists studying justification have attempted to argue for various types of chains of reasoning that can escape the regress problem.

Many Muslim scholars argue that even though technology may have advanced, the fundamentals of human life have not and is in the scope of current laws.

Many theologians argue for a Christology that is expressly based on the Trinity and an understanding of the interpersonal relationships between Father and Son and between Son and Holy Spirit.

Many libertarian socialists argue that large-scale voluntary associations should manage industrial manufacture, while workers retain rights to the individual products of their labor.

Many argue that the author of the book must have been a companion of the Apostle Paul, because of several passages in Acts written in the first person plural ( known as the We Sections ).

Many scientists argue that the Permian-Triassic extinction event was caused by a combination of some or all of the hypotheses above and other factors ; the formation of Pangaea decreased the number of coastal habitats and may have contributed to the extinction of many clades.

Many proponents do not argue that everything should be privatized.

Many argue that these are not themselves alive in the traditional sense, but these structures exhibit many of the characteristics of cells accepted as living cells:

Many economists working within the neoclassical paradigm argue that there is a natural rate of unemployment which, when subtracted from the actual rate of unemployment, can be used to calculate the negative GDP gap during a recession.

Many argue that it is homosexual actions which are sinful, rather than the state of being homosexual itself.

Many also argue that giving traditionally male roles to women will only detract from both women's and men's ability to lead truly fulfilling lives.

Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion.

Many film scholars and buffs argue that the aesthetic quality of cinema decreased for several years until directors, actors, and production staff adapted to the new " talkies ".

Many scholars argue that socialist law was not a separate legal classification.

Many opponents of school choice such as Martin Carnoy argue that public schools perform similarly to private schools when teaching similar groups of students, and that the conception of public schools as " failing " in comparison to private schools is more due to the demographic differences between public and private schools than to actual differences in the quality of the education the schools offer.