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philosophical analysis

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philosophical analysis British  

noun

  1. a philosophical method in which language and experience are analysed in an attempt to provide new insights into various philosophical problems

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of philosophical analysis

First recorded in 1940–45

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Perhaps it’s because I never studied literary or philosophical analysis in the same way he did, but I never understood the harm of the more informal usage.

From Washington Post Jul. 24, 2022

Deconstruction should apply only to the specific form of literary and philosophical analysis that takes the name, he argued, not simply to the idea of breaking anything into its parts.

From Washington Post Jul. 24, 2022

Delany’s philosophical analysis of McClean’s charge to the jury is enlightening. 

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2012

Chapter 15 of that book, "Why Men Climb," contains more philosophical analysis than many pounds of run-of-the-mill theses.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the main, therefore, and without absolute dogmatism as to this or that special portion, we may accept this mass of common knowledge as affording data for our philosophical analysis.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

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