Other continental philosophers suggest that concepts such as life, nature, and sex are ambiguous.

Other ancient historians and philosophers believing in the existence of Atlantis were Strabo and Posidonius.

Other philosophers, however, have suggested that consciousness would not be necessary for any functional advantage in evolutionary processes.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

Other philosophers, notably Wittgenstein, rejected the need for any undefined simples.

Other philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes and David Gauthier, have argued that the conflicts which arise when people each pursue their own ends can be resolved for the best of each individual only if they all voluntarily forgo some of their aims — that is, one's self-interest is often best pursued by allowing others to pursue their self-interest as well so that liberty is equal among individuals.

Other philosophers such as Nicholas Rescher or Richard Double have adopted the term, putting it to good use.

Other philosophers contend that nouns do not always name entities, but that some provide a kind of shorthand for reference to a collection of either objects or events.

Other reactions to natural theology are those of Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion, most notably D. Z. Phillips.

Other philosophers who embraced panentheism have included Thomas Hill Green ( 1839 – 1882 ), James Ward ( 1843 – 1925 ), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison ( 1856 – 1931 ) and Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ).

Other philosophers argue that categorization and conceptualization is learned and basically arbitrary, and that the objects in the world can be categorized in multiple ways, giving rise to different ways of describing or understanding the same phenomena.

Other natural philosophers, notably Gottfried Leibniz, thought instead that space was a collection of relations between objects, given by their distance and direction from one another.

Other philosophers have suggested that theodicy is a modern discipline because deities in the ancient world were often imperfect.

Other philosophers do not believe their techniques can aim so high.

Other philosophers, theorists, and schools of thought in this era were Mozi, founder of Mohism ; Mencius, a famous Confucian who expanded upon Confucius ' legacy ; Shang Yang and Han Fei, responsible for the development of ancient Chinese Legalism ( the core philosophy of the Qin Dynasty ); and Xun Zi, who was arguably the center of ancient Chinese intellectual life during his time, even more so than iconic intellectual figures such as Mencius.

" Other than Rousseau, Husserl, Heidegger and Lévinas, these three books discussed, and / or relied upon, the works of many philosophers and authors, including linguist Saussure, Hegel, Foucault, Bataille, Descartes, anthropologist Lévi-Strauss, paleontologist Leroi-Gourhan, psychoanalyst Freud, and writers such as Jabès and Artaud.

Other philosophers who practised such dialectic reasoning were the so-called minor Socratics, including Euclid of Megara, who were probably followers of Parmenides and Zeno.

Other early philosophers who were presentists include the Buddhists ( in the tradition of Indian Buddhism ).

Other philosophers ( such as Daniel Dennett ) disagree, arguing that all aspects of consciousness will eventually yield to scientific investigation.

Other 20th-century philosophers such as Gilbert Ryle and A. J.

Other philosophers expressed a more sceptical and pragmatic view of the operation of " conscience " in society.

Other notable philosophers in the problem of selfhood or as it is technically known-personal identity – include Derek Parfit, Thomas Metzinger, Julian Baginni, Bernard Williams and Sam Harris.

* Other philosophers have denied that any such conclusions can be derived from this thought experiment.

Other notable philosophers of the Golden Age included Anaxagoras ; Democritus ( who first inquired as to what substance lies within all matter, the earliest known proposal of what is now called the atom or its sub-units ); Empedocles ; Hippias ; Isocrates ; Parmenides ; Heraclitus ; and Protagoras.

Other organizations have sprung up which do their peer review entirely free and online, such as Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research ( JAIR ), Journal of Machine Learning Research ( JMLR ) and the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology.

Other contemporary Christian writers do not describe monarchial bishops-either continuing to equate them with the presbyters or speaking of episkopoi ( bishops, plural ) in a city.

Other countries though do not have the reporting requirement that the U. S. does concerning proceeds from barter transactions, but taxation is handled the same way as a cash transaction.

Other Member States do not provide the option of a debt discharge.

Other scholars have responded that Banquo's dreams have less to do with killing the king and more to do with Macbeth.

Other forms of continuity do exist but they are not discussed in this article.

" Other, more radical critiques of development studies, have to do with the field of study itself.

Other libraries do not install content control software, believing that acceptable use policies and educational efforts address the issue of children accessing age-inappropriate content while preserving adult users ' right to freely access information.

Other Christian denominations do not view monogamous same-sex relationships as sinful or immoral, and may bless such unions and consider them marriages.

Other significant contrasts were seen in regards to " liberal " versus " conservative " social positions, as well as in one ’ s understanding of God, with 43 % of homosexual participants sharing the " orthodox, biblical " understanding of God which 71 % of heterosexual participants indicate they do.

Other churches perform ceremonies blessing same sex unions, but do not refer to them as marriages.

Other well known Sangiovese-based Tuscan wines such as Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano could be bottled and labeled under the most basic designation of " Chianti " if their producers chose to do so.

" Other critics of the FAO data point out that they do not distinguish between forest types, and that they are based largely on reporting from forestry departments of individual countries, which do not take into account unofficial activities like illegal logging.

Other notational traditions do exist ; Italian solo music is typically written at the sounding pitch, and the " old " German method sounded an octave below where notation except in the treble clef, where the music was written at pitch.

Other projects can be planned with a project network, but do not have access to true and timely actual cost data.

Other fox species do not reproduce as readily as the red fox, and are endangered in their native environments.

Other types of trigger locks do not go behind the trigger, but encompass the full area behind the trigger guard making the trigger inaccessible.

Deciding to author a book on the subject, he wrote Keris and Other Malay Weapons, being encouraged to do so by anthropologist friends ; it would subsequently edited into a readable form by Betty Lumsden Milne and published by the Singapore-based Progressive Publishing Company in 1936.

Other scholars of the Hebrides and inhabitants of the region do not consider this a myth, as there are sufficient records in both the oral tradition and the written compilation of those records that predate both Pennant and Anton by a century or more that preserve the history of this tradition.

Other types of saddles, such as racing saddles, Australian saddles, sidesaddles and endurance saddles do not necessarily fit neatly in either category.

Other types of infectious / transmissible / communicable diseases with more specialized routes of infection, such as vector transmission or sexual transmission, are usually not regarded as " contagious ," and often do not require medical isolation ( sometimes loosely called quarantine ) of victims.

Other principles such as Accountability have sometimes been proposed for addition – it has been pointed out that issues such as Non-Repudiation do not fit well within the three core concepts, and as regulation of computer systems has increased ( particularly amongst the Western nations ) Legality is becoming a key consideration for practical security installations.

Other 15th century manuscripts, such as The Book of Fermoy also contain interesting materials, as do such later syncretic works such as Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn ( The History of Ireland ) ( ca.