dephilosophize
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3ADJ.
trying
DEPHILOSOPHIZE + NOUN
-, history, sciences
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from, in
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To remove philosophy (from): to replace abstract models with objective observation and concrete description.
If we dephilosophize the sciences - what is left - earth, air, and water.
Furthermore, there has been a historical tendency in medicine to "dephilosophize" and shift from "armchair speculation" to the discovery of “a web of invariances that form the basis for today's control of Somatic man.".
To make or become unphilosophical.
Opinion again, while improved, interesting as it may be to its holders, has no special interest for philosophy; to press philosophy into its service is to dephilosophize it.
Philosopher, dephilosophize yourself, and then take off your clothes. Oh, God, what self-esteem, what ignorance, what malice, what shrunken thinking, and all in one person!
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3If we dephilosophize the sciences - what is left - earth, air, and water.
WiktionaryFurthermore, there has been a historical tendency in medicine to "dephilosophize" and shift from "armchair speculation" to the discovery of “a web of invariances that form the basis for today's contro
WiktionaryBy viewing his task in this way, as John Hinde puts it, 'Burckhardt was not just trying to dephilosophize history; he wanted to aestheticize it in order to capture the whole of human society and histo
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