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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
philosophize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy
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Examples
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And again ... "what are the motive-forces which drive us into this process which we call philosophizing?"
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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And what about scientists who routinely engage in philosophizing?
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Cicero says that philosophizing is nothing other than getting ready to die.
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You, for instance, he calls a philosophizing old woman, and me a dissolute buffoon and scamp.
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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With the bounding energy of youth, with the busy toil of middle age, men are not apt to spend time in philosophizing.
Relations of the United States with Canada and Great Britain 1905
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While it is true that a literary criticism not bound to academe might still give attention to "philosophizing," et. al., it is hard to imagine that such criticism would so willingly apologize for aesthetically inferior work as academic criticism in its current guise is forced to do.
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How the future is, is related in turn to how we perceive it at any one or more points in time--a lot of this "philosophizing" has to do with who we are as individuals, our culture, and whether things develop along the lines we wish for or are perhaps expecting.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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What had people been talking about or what were they all kind of philosophizing about the possibility of how this death took place?
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We can posit a speculative metaphysics which can explain these (it’s my amateur hobby), but if you’re honest about it, I doubt this kind of philosophizing can get you to religious beliefs of the usual sort.
Please Tell Me What “God” Means Sean 2007
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But it is as improbable that a healthy state of the soul will be produced by this kind of philosophizing as that a healthy state of the body will be produced by this kind of medical treatment. [
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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