philosophers

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Philosophers, ministers, judges, novelists and historians have all taken a crack at defining “character.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Philosophers then focus on their tense properties: is an event past, present or future?

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Philosophers and theologians adopted the Slavonic upiór to coin the English term “vampire.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Philosophers love a married bachelor as a succinct example of a contradiction; so to honor that tradition, let’s assume the following:

From Scientific American • Oct. 16, 2023

‘Even our Experimental Philosophers and Physicians find, that an experiment that hits ofttimes, quite misseth afterwards on other Subjects, and they know not why. A course of effects may oft come from unknown causes.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton