To explain words by words, to compare concepts with concepts, in which most philosophising consists, is a trivial shifting about of the concept-spheres in order to see which goes into the other and which does not.
This agreement, however, must be the more satisfactory to me because in myphilosophising I have certainly not been under its influence.
But thus the matter of the whole philosophising becomes astonishingly trifling and paltry, and hence arises that unutterable and excruciating tediousness which is characteristic of all such writings.
We have here Mr. Browning in a dervish's robe, philosophising in a Persian atmosphere, yet talking the most perfect Browningese, just as do the Pope in the Ring and the Book and the rabbis in the Jewish poems.
But the very reservations and criticisms of the old mistaken constructions demand a discussion of concepts, that is a process of philosophising: although it may be a philosophising which leads properly to the denial of a philosophy of history.
These recent productions do not aim at supplying a new philosophy of history, they simply offer some philosophisingabout history.
Philosophy of religion has signified, often, a philosophising of which religion was, so to say, the atmosphere.
Those old philosophers were heartless: philosophising was always a species of vampirism.
All modernphilosophising is limited politically and regulated by the police to learned semblance.
The first period in Parmenides' own philosophising bears still the signature of Anaximander; this period produced a detailed philosophic-physical system as answer to Anaximander's questions.
In contrast with such gloomy allegorical philosophising scarcely to be translated into the realm of the comprehensible, Thales' are the works of a creative master who began to look into Nature's depths without fantastic fabling.
The King of Spades happened to be in a philosophising mood.
Each of his dialogues has its own point of view, worked out on that particular occasion; what is common to them all, is the process of philosophising applied in various ways to the same general topics.
In their philosophising they all start, not from the world or our consciousness of it, but from God, as something given and known; He is not their quaesitum, but their datum.
When you are philosophising upon Nature, do not lay down the law, but search out the real facts of Nature.
And while philosophising then, we cannot but ask what is this one infinite universal reality which is our Self and is called the spirit.
And a rational method of philosophising has, at all events, the same negative merit.
The method of philosophising pursued in Germany is fundamentally different from that which happily obtains in Scotland.
It is a part of Plato's dramatic and tentative mode of philosophising to work out different ethical points of view, and to have present to his mind one or other of them, with peculiar force in each different dialogue.
The co-existence of individual reasoners enquiring and philosophising for themselves, with the fixed opinions of the majority, is one of the main conditions which distinguish a progressive from a stationary community.
A greater and more durable liberty of philosophising was procured for Athens, and through Athens for Greece generally, than had ever been known before in the history of mankind.
They prove that Theists set at nought the rule of philosophising which forbids us to choose the greater of two difficulties.
The divine Plato and the marvellous Kant unite their mighty voices in recommending a rule, to serve as the method of all philosophising as well as of all other science.
Accordingly, historical philosophisingis henceforth indispensable, and with it honesty of judgment.
Every one at the present day who is using his wits is philosophising after a fashion, and is contributing towards the advancement of philosophy.
The pair are philosophising together, and talking of yesterday's comedy!
Here, too, philosophising and prophecy were in evidence.
Shaftesbury's cheerfulness and geniality in philosophising were thoroughly sympathetic to Diderot.
He was above all others the archetype and representative of the passion for moralising, analysing, and philosophising which made the epoch what it was; but the rest of the world was all in the same vein.
He frankly told his philosophising visitors that he could not see why one part of the body should be covered rather than another.
These are 'strong reasons' for Atheism--they prove that Theists set at nought the rule of philosophising which forbids us to choose the greater of two difficulties.
There was something fantastic to him in this sudden philosophising by one whom he had watched grow up from a tiny thing.
Let me be a warning to you, Gentle Reader, when you once get to philosophising yourself over (along the line of your faults) into the disputed territory of the First Person Singular.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philosophising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
