Meaning

To remove philosophy (from): to replace abstract models with objective observation and concrete description..

Definitions by Sense

1. To remove philosophy (from): to replace abstract models with objective observation and concrete description.
2. To make or become unphilosophical.

Example Sentences

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.".

By 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 history as an aesthetic product in which art and free spiritual creativity have world-making significance.'

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!

They have helped me to "dephilosophize," to shun the allures of culture and to place myself on the margin of convictions acquired through long philosophical inquiry on the subject of scientific thinking.

To dephilosophize or unphilosophize, to embrace the insult of being 'unphilosophical' as one's own, because the alternative of being recognized as 'proper' comes at the cost of also being a cliche.

Word Forms

• dephilosophizes
• dephilosophizing
• dephilosophized

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