philosophical analysis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of philosophical analysis
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
"The Metaphysics" of Aristotle opens by an enumeration of "the principles or causes" 718 into which all existences can be resolved by philosophical analysis.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
