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 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 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 of our young people think it would.

Many local citizens feared that there would be irregularities at the polls, and Williams got himself a permit to carry a gun and promised an orderly election.

Many years later, the photon-counting apparatus in the nose of the ship would determine that the star was close enough to actuate deceleration.

" Many would agree with the Dalai Lama that Buddhism as a religion is kindness toward others.

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

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

Many 3rd party companies would introduce compatible Ethernet and Token Ring cards that used these same drivers.

Many GA-style guitars also have a convex back panel to increase the volume of space in the soundbox without making the soundbox deeper at the edges, which would affect comfort and playability.

Many ordinary churchgoers — that is, those who could afford a copy, as it was expensive — would own a copy of the prayer book.

Many exotic woods are suitable for suburi ( solo practice ), but not for paired practice where they would come into contact with other bokken.

Many magazines in the UK including Total Film, Empire and SFX ran the story that Jackman would be playing Bixby.

Many fine chemicals are prepared via catalysis ; methods include those of heavy industry as well as more specialized processes that would be prohibitively expensive on a large scale.

Many a wife would keep her husband's brass curling stone handle on the mantelpiece, brightly polished until the next time it was needed.

Many a sheltered scholar would have been astonished at the Cimmerian's linguistic abilities ..." He also has incredible stamina, enabling him to go without sleep for a few days.

Many years later in a letter to Davis ( ca 1965 ), Gödel would confess that " he was, at the time of these lectures, not at all convinced that his concept of recursion comprised all possible recursions ".

Many would disapprove of government filtering viewpoints on moral or political issues, agreeing that this could become support for propaganda.

Many would also find it unacceptable that an ISP, whether by law or by the ISP's own choice, should deploy such software without allowing the users to disable the filtering for their own connections.

Many of them would come to be definitive examples of what came to be known as " mockumentaries ".

Many men, usually the younger brothers in a family would stress out, accept lower status serfdom in form of human lease, but one with the possibility of a stable love life, than the emotional trauma of high status and polyandry.

Many ecclesias in the " Central " grouping would not refuse a baptised Christadelphian from a minority " fellowship " from breaking bread ; the exclusion is more usually the other way.

Many thought the incident would end his season early, but Earnhardt refused to give up.

Many prematurely considered that victory in Europe would come by summer's end ; but Eisenhower knew from his German roots that the fight would continue.