Some philosophers deny that the concept of " being " has any meaning at all, since we only define an object's existence by its relation to other objects, and actions it undertakes.

Some philosophers who have had more noteworthy theories are Parmenides, Leucippus, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Plotinus, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Heidegger, and Sartre.

Some philosophers believe that Block's two types of consciousness are not the end of the story.

Some philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett in an essay titled The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, argue that people who give this explanation do not really understand what they are saying.

Some philosophers have argued that it is intrinsically unsolvable, because qualities (" qualia ") are ineffable ; that is, they are " raw feels ", incapable of being analyzed into component processes.

Some contemporary philosophers and scientists ( e. g. David Deutsch in The Fabric of Reality ) employ virtual reality in various thought experiments.

Some philosophers think there is an important distinction between " knowing that ," " knowing how ," and " acquaintance-knowledge ," with epistemology primarily interested in the first.

Some philosophers rely on descriptive ethics and choices made and unchallenged by a society or culture to derive categories, which typically vary by context.

Some philosophers, such as Dennett, reject both epiphenomenalism and the existence of qualia with the same charge that Gilbert Ryle leveled against a Cartesian " ghost in the machine ", that they too are category mistakes.

Some notable philosophers, such as Alasdair MacIntyre, have theorized freedom in terms of our social interdependence with other people.

Some ancient authorities in the doxographic tradition credited the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, and Parmenides, in the 5th, with recognizing that the Earth is spherical.

Some philosophers believe that an object can't persist through a change of parts.

Some philosophers embrace the existence of both kinds of reason, while others deny the existence of one or the other.

Some philosophers argue that Sartre's thought is contradictory.

Some philosophers used to contend that positivism was the theory that there is " no necessary connection " between law and morality ; but influential contemporary positivists, including Joseph Raz, John Gardner, and Leslie Green, reject that view.

Some time afterwards, he chanced upon an old man, possibly a Palestinian or Syrian Christian, in the vicinity of the seashore, who engaged him in a dialogue about God, and spoke of the testimony of the prophets as more reliable than the reasoning of philosophers.

Some analytical philosophers argue that all meaningful empirical questions are to be answered by science, not philosophy.

Some philosophers ( e. g. existentialists, pragmatists ) think philosophy is ultimately a practical discipline that should help us lead meaningful lives by showing us who we are, how we relate to the world around us and what we should do.

Some philosophers of science, such as the neo-positivists, say that natural science rejects the study of metaphysics, while other philosophers of science strongly disagree.

Some philosophers, known as Incompatibilists, view determinism and free will as mutually exclusive.

Some philosophers maintain that moral relativism entails non-cognitivism.

Some of the philosophers are portrayed according to their works.

Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind ( sometimes described as identical with soul or spirit ) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.

Some authorities further divide this genus into three, splitting off the smooth-fronted caimans into a genus Paleosuchus and the Black Caiman into Melanosuchus.

Some trophozoites enlage and become macrogamete while others divide repeatedly to form microgametes.

Some scholarly editions divide the Tales into ten " fragments.

Some have argued hate crime laws bring the law into disrepute and further divide society, as groups apply to have their critics silenced.

Some market commentators divide the Kondratiev wave into four ' seasons ', namely, the Kondratiev Spring ( improvement or plateau ) and Summer ( acceleration or prosperity ) of the ascendant period and the Kondratiev Fall ( recession or plateau ) and Winter ( acceleration or depression ) of the downward period.

Some Marxists, together with others on the left, view nationalism, racism ( including anti-Semitism ), and religion, as divide and conquer strategies used by the ruling classes to prevent the working class from uniting against them.

The Midrash concentrates somewhat on remez but mostly on derash ( Some thinkers divide PaRDeS into pshat, remez, din ( law ) and sod.

Some of these scriptures vary markedly between differing Christian denominations ; Protestants accept only the Hebrew Bible's canon but divide it into 39 books, while Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox, Coptic and Ethiopian churches recognise a considerably larger collection.

Some authors divide digital role-playing games into two intertwined groups: single player games using RPG-style mechanics, and multiplayer games incorporating social interaction.

Some schools in the UK and USA divide the academic year into three roughly equal-length terms ( called " trimesters " or " quarters " in the USA ), roughly coinciding with autumn, winter, and spring.

Some schools in the United States, notably Boston Latin School, may divide the year into five or more marking periods.

Some AVRs also have a system clock prescaler that can divide down the system clock by up to 1024.

Some residents were opposed to this as it would result in the demolition of historic homes and divide the city into two parts.

Some historians have suggested that the at-the-time unprecedented laws banning interracial marriage were originally invented by planters as a divide and rule tactic after the uprising of servants in Bacon's Rebellion.

Some algorithms are easy to divide up into pieces like this.

Some processors generate an exception when an attempt is made to divide an integer by zero, although others will simply continue and generate an incorrect result for the division.

Some authorities even regard this as a distinguishing feature of a true Vee engine, and for example divide flat engines into boxer engines which do not share crank pins in this way, and 180 ° engines which do.

Some sources further divide these two groups into traditional ( caused by server-side code flaws ) and DOM-based ( in client-side code ).

Some authors continue to follow Thompson in using a large genus Antirrhinum, which is then divided into several sections ; others treat Thompson's genus as a tribe or subtribe, and divide it into several genera.

Some kanun makers choose to divide the semitone of the lower registers into 7 parts instead for microtonal subtlety at the expense of octave equivalences.

Some manufacturers and retailers ( for example: Yamaha ) divide their keyboard products into the following categories:

Some sources divide the heterokonts into the autotrophic Ochrophyta and heterotrophic Bigyra and Pseudofungi.

Some of the train services divide at Haywards Heath before continuing their journey to the south, or join other services before continuing north.

Some, such as newspaper Die Welt, have also speculated that the initiative could be a response to the suggestion by Muammar al-Gaddafi to dissolve Switzerland and divide its territory among its neighbouring countries.