Sentences with phrase «treat philosophical arguments»

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And since Stapp has provided no further arguments for the meaningfulness of the joint class A, B, C, and D or for the propriety of treating the four equations relating the four sets of spin - value products as simultaneous equations, one can only conclude that both of these matters stand in need of considerable clarification and that any philosophical claims which depend upon the conclusion reached in Stapp's proof are in jeopardy.

It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

Gray's sky - high ambitions, however admirable, preclude any sense of nuance or ambiguity, a problem shared by Cahill's film, which treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

Along the way, we are treated to Isabel's philosophical musings on many diverse subjects: being polite, or saying what you really feel; landscape painters taking artistic licence; the purpose of art; adoption; head lice; which bodily afflictions are too personal to talk about; sarcasm; swearing; wind turbines; jumping to conclusions; religion; children's literature; dogs dreaming; metaphors; how to end arguments and knowing who you are.

The extent that we care about the next generation is a serious philosophical argument — one which many people have to deal with on a smaller scale when they think about, for example, what they should do with their inheritance (which, incidentally, is a different argument to what you think about the next group in general, as kinship relationships get treated differently).