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 philosophers argue to the contrary, believing that, for example, the laws of thought cannot be revised and may be " held come what may ".

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

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 residents strongly identify with their localities or boroughs.

Many of his works are generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to transcendentalism, which Poe strongly disliked.

Many depictions of her also draw strongly on Celtic goddesses.

Many who are strongly opposed to Greenberg's methods of language classification ( see below ) acknowledge the importance of his typological work.

Many people in southern states strongly opposed the Brown decision.

Many of his stories, such as Gulf, If This Goes On —, and Stranger in a Strange Land, depend strongly on the premise, related to the well-known Sapir – Whorf hypothesis, that by using a correctly designed language, one can change or improve oneself mentally, or even realize untapped potential ( as in the case of Joe Green in Gulf ).

Many, if not most, of the Indian volunteers who switched sides to fight with the German Army and against the British were strongly nationalistic supporters of the exiled, anti-British, former president of the Indian National Congress, Netaji ( the Leader ) Subhas Chandra Bose.

Many modern vaccination policies allow exemptions for people who have compromised immune systems, allergies to the components used in vaccinations or strongly held objections.

Many neopagan witches strongly identify with this concept, and profess ethical codes that prevent them from performing magic on a person without their request.

Many Rastas do not claim any sect or denomination, and thus encourage one another to find faith and inspiration within themselves, although some do identify strongly with one of the " mansions of Rastafari " — the three most prominent of these being the Nyahbinghi, the Bobo Ashanti and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Many of the people in the state supported the Union, although Missouri's Little Dixie section along the Mississippi River in southeastern counties was strongly pro-Confederate.

Many of the bands from this era were strongly influenced by other genres, such as heavy metal, alternative, pop, and even rap.

Many of these factors are strongly mediated by climate.

Many residents of unincorporated and less-developed south Fulton County strongly opposed incorporation, fearing the loss of tax revenues which fund county services.

Many of the Allied officers, including the Tsar's aides and the Austrian Chief of Staff Franz von Weyrother, strongly supported the idea of attacking immediately and appeared to be swaying Tsar Alexander ’ s opinion.

Many early uses in the 19th century appear in translations from French or are strongly influenced by French usage.

Many Sikhs strongly maintain that the attack resulted in the desecration of the holiest Sikh shrine.

Many structural alloys corrode merely from exposure to moisture in the air, but the process can be strongly affected by exposure to certain substances.

Many ITV regions took the programme for the first time, establishing the show strongly in the nation's consciousness.

Many Pinophyta | conifers show particularly strong apical dominance, strongest of all in the family Araucariaceae, showing a single erect central trunk with strongly differentiated horizontal branching.

Many months later, Lee wrote a strongly worded letter to Congress in protest but Congress closed the affair by informing him that it had no more need of his services.

Many European consumers are asking for food regulation ( demanding labels that identify which food has been genetically modified ), while the American agricultural industry is arguing for free trade and is strongly opposed to labeling, saying it gives the food a negative connotation.

Many times in e-business, however, " something you are " is pretty strongly verified by checking the purchaser's " something you have " ( i. e. credit card ) and " something you know " ( i. e. card number ).

Many expected that Byrnes would be the Democratic nominee for vice president with Roosevelt in 1944 replacing Henry A. Wallace, whom party officials strongly felt was too eccentric to replace an ailing President who likely going to die before his next term ended.