Sui Generis - Philosophy

Philosophy

The expression is often used in analytic philosophy to indicate an idea, an entity, or a reality which cannot be included in a wider concept.

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Famous quotes containing the word philosophy:

    “Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.”
    —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

    “My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living in illusion as a goal!”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)