Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

speculative philosophy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: spec-u-la-tive phi-los-o-phy
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Philosophy, especially traditional metaphysical philosophy, which makes claims that cannot be verified by everyday experience of the physical world or by a scientific method.

Uncountable

noun

A particular philosophical school, system, or work representative of this kind of philosophy.

Countable

Example Sentences

"Speculative philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted."
"In the period before the wars, some of the speculative philosophies, including pragmatism, developed supernaturalist theologies and idealistic metaphysics, while others discarded these traditional views in favor of sweeping Spencerian or Bergsonian theories about nature."

Usage

Inflected Forms

speculative philosophies (plural)

Questions

What does speculative philosophy mean?: Philosophy, especially traditional metaphysical philosophy, which makes claims that cannot be verified by everyday experience of the physical world or by a scientific method.

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