philosophical

comparative more philosophical · superlative most philosophical · alternative obsolete philosophicall · alternative obsolete phylosophicall · alternative nonstandard phylosophical

1. Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.

   “For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm,” said Howard Chen, study author and Ph.D candidate at Northwestern University.

   2019 November 11, Ashley Strickland, “What makes a planet potentially habitable”, in CNN

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   All the creations of classic German philosophy, such as Hegel's Idea, Fichte's Ego, or Schelling's Absolute, appeared to him simply as substitutes for the Deity, reduced to a more abstract form by philosophical imagination.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118

2. Rational; analytic or critically minded; thoughtful.

   His richly philosophical intellect was not at any time affected by unrealities.

   1846, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Sphinx”, in Arthur's Ladies Magazine

3. Detached, calm, stoic.

   She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference.

   1911, Hector Hugh Munro, The Schartz-Metterklume Method