He has published extensively on the social and environmental significance of agriculture and a number of volumes and papers on the philosophical significance of farming, notably The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics ( 1995 ) and The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism ( 2000 ).

He left aside philosophical discussions which seemed to have no significance for the religious consciousness and those which pertained purely to scholasticism: " we concern ourselves with the verities that are, and leave aside the errors which arise from speculation on matters which are not.

The meaning of life is a philosophical question concerning the significance of life or existence in general.

Often, what is widely regarded as a deep philosophical problem will vanish, argues Wittgenstein, and eventually be seen as a confusion about the significance of the words that philosophers use to frame such problems and questions.

The philosophical significance of such a method for Wittgenstein was that it alleviated a confusion, namely the idea that logical inferences are justified by rules.

This name may have some symbolic significance given the place of māyā in Indian thought, but it does not seem to have led this tradition to give to the concept of māyā much of a philosophical role.

The Idirans ' decision to go to war is described as being founded in their philosophical, moral and religious distaste for the almost symbiotic nature of the Culture and the threat that their artificial intelligences were considered to be posing to the primacy and significance of biological life in the universe.

His significance as a philosopher and teacher, and his few remaining philosophical works, have not received the same attention as his scientific and poetic writings.

The third byte represents the number 42 which happens to be the ASCII character "*", also represented by hexidecimal 2A, selected because this is the binary pattern 101010 and " for its deep philosophical significance ".

The formula game that Brouwer so deprecates has, besides its mathematical value, an important general philosophical significance.

Nishida Kitaro wrote extensively on " the Religious Worldview " in exploring the philosophical significance of Eastern religions.

It is common to both non-dualistic and dualistic philosophical schools, but has a markedly different significance in each.

He also believed that it was important to practical affairs that one should engage in both academic and philosophical pursuits, although his writings are concentrated more on issues of theoretical ( as opposed to practical ) significance.

" Some of them have been taken to have philosophical significance.

Bertrand Russell tended to dismiss language as being of little philosophical significance, and ordinary language as just being too confused to help solve metaphysical and epistemological problems.

* Thom, Alexander, Statistical and philosophical arguments for the astronomical significance of standing stones, in D. C. Heggie, Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, Cambridge University Press, 53-82, 1982.

* Thom, Alexander, Statistical and philosophical arguments for the astronomical significance of standing stones with a section on the solar calendar, in D. C. Heggie, Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, Cambridge University Press, 53-82, 1982.

Syrianus ' philosophical significance lies in the field of metaphysics and the exegesis of Plato.

In these articles it is shown the significance of new system of knowledge of Living Ethics for development of science, the first results of using of this philosophical system propositions for solution of scientific and ideological problems.

Its group of friends and contributors includes almost every writer of significance of the time, though some, like D. H. Lawrence ( whose " Once " was published in the magazine in 1914 ), came to denounce it for " editorial sloppiness " and for the philosophical attitudes of its editorial staff.

In the Chinese philosophical tradition, the Baima Luns significance is evident from how many Chinese classic texts directly or indirectly discuss it.

To Vattimo, hermeneutics has become boring and vague-lacking any clear significance for philosophical problems.

Gokak is a place of philosophical and historical significance.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

) Functionalism as a sociological credo is, therefore, not a direct consequence of observations, but rather an indirect consequence of philosophical inference and judgment.

The purpose of this sort of philosophical study of sociology is not to tyrannize but to clarify the principles of social science.

I shall first indicate a couple of weaknesses in Fromm's analysis, then argue that, granted these weaknesses, he still has much left that is valuable, and, finally, raise the general question of a philosophical versus a sociological approach to the question of alienation.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

It is Martin Heidegger, not Nietzsche, who elaborated a new interpretation of Aristotle, intended to warrant his deconstruction of scholastic and philosophical tradition.

Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners ' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

Applied ethics is the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment.

It is thus a term used to describe attempts to use philosophical methods to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

There is still the position, based on the philosophical question of personal identity, termed open individualism, and in some ways similar to the old belief of monopsychism, that concludes that individual existence is illusory, and our consciousness continues existing after death in other conscious beings.

He was undoubtably the biggest influence on Plotinus in his development of Neoplatonism, although little is known about his own philosophical views.

Very little is known about his philosophical views.

The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

Aesthetics is the philosophical notion of beauty.

In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical consideration that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it.

In philosophical terminology, abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects.

Axiology ( from Greek, axiā, " value, worth "; and ,-logos ) is the philosophical study of value.

It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics — philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value — or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics.