Many definitions of music implicitly hold that music is a communicative activity which conveys to the listener moods, emotions, thoughts, impressions, or religious, philosophical, sexual, or political concepts or positions.

Many other French philosophes ( intellectuals ) exerted philosophical influence on a continental scale, including Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose essay The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right was a catalyst for governmental and societal reform throughout Europe.

Many Buddhist philosophical works lost in Tibet and elsewhere are preserved in older and purer form in Mongolian ancient texts ( e. g. the Mongolian Kanjur ).

Many of the ideas developed by historical and modern personality theorists stem from the basic philosophical assumptions they hold.

Many of these classical philosophical questions were discussed in the Renaissance and then reformulated in the 17th century, particularly during the early development of classical mechanics.

( Many of the philosophical doctrines of the mature Frege have parallels in Lotze ; it has been the subject of scholarly debate whether or not there was a direct influence on Frege's views arising from his attending Lotze's lectures.

Many later critics, though undoubtedly still influenced by theoretical work, have been comfortable simply interpreting literature rather than writing explicitly about methodology and philosophical presumptions.

Many of its ideas, motifs and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil ( 1896 – 99 ), though the perspective and treatment there are different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve ( 1908 – 09 ).

Many highly educated amateurs now also travelled to Egypt, however, including women such as Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, who both left fascinatingly philosophical accounts of their travels, which revealed learned familiarity with all the latest European Egyptology.

Many of the Absurdists were contemporaries with Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosophical spokesman for Existentialism in Paris, but few Absurdists actually committed to Sartre's own Existentialist philosophy, as expressed in Being and Nothingness, and many of the Absurdists had a complicated relationship with him.

Many green anarchists choose to focus not on philosophical issues for a future society, but on the defense of the earth and social revolution in the present.

A scene from Plato's philosophical work The Symposium, where Alcibiades, the archetypal Athenian aristocrat, arrives drunk at a party hosted by Agathon. Many of the poems of Theognis reflect on man's relation to wine, a symbolic focus for general reflections on the ideal of moderation.

Many of his treatises on morals and ethics and other philosophical subjects came into print in the 17th and 18th centuries, because of their antiquarian interest.

Many of the early philosophical debates centered around reconciling religion and reason, the latter exemplified by Greek philosophy.

Many have begun to argue that the originality and unity of his philosophical system merits him a place alongside such figures as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.

Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of Christianity.

Many lost Greek texts, and many of the surviving vulgate books, contained discussions of alchemy clothed in philosophical metaphor.

Many prominent religious works about conscience also have a significant philosophical component: examples are the works of Al-Ghazali, Avicenna, Aquinas, Joseph Butler and Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( all discussed in the philosophical views section ).

Many lost Greek texts, and many of the surviving vulgate books, contained discussions of alchemy clothed in philosophical metaphor.

Many saw him as a model and example of philosophical honest and persistent philosophical inquiry.

Many philosophical works were also created at this time, including the Dispute between a man and his Ba where an unhappy man converses with his soul, the The Satire of the Trades in which the role of the scribe is praised above all other jobs, and the magic tales supposedly told to the Old Kingdom pharaoh Khufu in the Westcar Papyrus.

Many copies of Aristotle in Latin then in circulation were assumed to have been influenced by Averroes, who was suspected of being a source of philosophical and theological errors found in the earlier translations of Aristotle.

Many American anthropologists adopted his agenda for social reform, and theories of race continue to be popular subjects for anthropologists today.

Many other neuroscientists, such as Christof Koch, have explored the neural basis of consciousness without attempting to frame all-encompassing global theories.

Many consequentialist theories may seem primarily concerned with human beings and their relationships with other human beings.

Many Masonic conspiracy theories have pictured Freemasonry as an internationalist secret cabal.

Many other theories are prominent for their contributions to particular aspects of development.

Many social researchers have investigated flaming, coming up with several different theories about the phenomenon.

Many common axiomatic systems, such as first-order Peano arithmetic and axiomatic set theory, including the canonical Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory ( ZF ), can be formalized as first-order theories.

Many physicists believe that the above phenomena are in fact impossible, and that future theories of gravity will prohibit them.

Many alternative, often contradictory, theories have been proposed regarding the pyramid's construction techniques.

Many theories exist as to the source and origin of Sabah power.

Many 20th-century theories of myth rejected the 19th-century theories ' opposition of myth and science.

Many theories have been proposed about proper names, none of them entirely satisfactory.

Many theories have been proposed by parapsychologists to explain how psi takes place.

Many theories suggest that the piercing was used to secure the penis in some manner, rather than having a sexual or cultural purpose.

Many competing theories have been made to discover the possible connections between sleep and learning in humans.

Many things can be justified: beliefs, actions, emotions, claims, laws, theories and so on.

Many argue that current methods of aid are not working and are calling for reducing foreign aid ( and therefore dependency ) and utilizing different economic theories than the traditional mainstream theories from the West.

Many candidate theories of everything have been proposed by theoretical physicists during the twentieth century, but none have been confirmed experimentally.

Many TWA Flight 800 alternative theories exist, the most prevalent being that a missile strike from a terrorist or U. S. Navy vessel caused the crash, and is the subject of a government coverup.

Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially.

Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves.

Many socio-political theories postulate that socialization provides only a partial explanation for human beliefs and behaviors, maintaining that agents are not ' blank slates ' predetermined by their environment.

Many candidate theories of everything have been proposed by theoretical physicists during the twentieth century, but none have been confirmed experimentally.