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 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 philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is subjective experience itself, and access consciousness, which refers to the global availability of information to processing systems in the brain.

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

Some will think he opposes taxes in general, because they hinder economic growth.

Some think that the " Pay Lay Ale " sentence is derived from the Hebrew phrase " pe le-El ", פה לאל ' mouth to God '.

Some cosmologists think that string theory and brane cosmology will provide an alternative to inflation.

Some researchers think the spells are related to centers inside the brain, that regulate breathing, which may not be fully developed.

Some historians think Kling's absence was significant enough to prevent the Cubs from also winning a third straight title in 1909, as they finished 6 games out of first place.

Some modern historians think that Caligula suffered from hyperthyroidism.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

Some commentators have said that it means that is not possible to think outside of the philosophical system, or that there is no experience of reality outside of language.

Some scholars think that The porisms may have actually been a section of Arithmetica that is now lost.

Some examples include: to develop reasoning about perennial questions, to master the methods of scientific inquiry, to cultivate the intellect, to create positive change agents, or simply to teach pupils how to think.

Some say that they were godless people, who in their lifetime had denied the resurrection, and committed other sins ; others think they were those Ephraimites who tried to escape from Egypt before Moses and perished in the attempt.

Some examples of possible resolutions are that intelligent life is rarer than we think, or that our assumptions about the general behavior of intelligent species are flawed.

Some historians think that Thomas Cromwell affected a " Tudor Revolution " in government, and it is certain that Parliament became more important during his chancellorship.

Some think it best not to treat the item at all for fear of the consequences.

" Some people think ," he told a Berlin rally in June 1935, " that we haven ’ t noticed how the Jews are trying once again to spread themselves over all our streets.

Some think it is best to represent knowledge in the same way that it is represented in the human mind, or to represent knowledge in the form of human language.

Some writers ( including Bertrand Russell and Karl Marx ) think the labor theory of value can be traced back to him.

Some think that there are some qualities of language acquisition that the human brain is automatically wired for ( a " nature " component ) and some that are shaped by the particular language environment in which a person is raised ( a " nurture " component ).

Some people might think that the strong feelings we have when we see or consider a murder provide evidence of murder's wrongness.

Some scholars think that The Murder of Gonzago, the unknown play which was reworked by Hamlet into The Mousetrap ( the play within a play ) that reenacted Hamlet's father's murder by poison poured into his ear, may have been a popular theatrical reenactment of Urbino's assassination.

Some parents also object to the use of standardized tests ( all students take the same test under the same conditions ) because they think it unfair for schools to require the same level of work or to use the achievement tests for impoverished or disadvantaged students as they do for more advantaged students.

Some think the myth even indicates that the ancient Greeks knew about the liver ’ s remarkable capacity for self-repair.