He says settlements are necessary both for security reasons and to drive home Israel's philosophical and biblical claim to the territories.

It is not clear to me whether this is some kind of philosophical claim or an hypothesis.

Fried tends to press his philosophical claims too far, especially in asserting the autonomy and self-sufficiency of the sovereign individual.

The "causal adequacy principle" (CAP) is a philosophical claim made by René Descartes that the cause of an object must contain at least as much reality as the object itself, whether formally or eminently.

It should also be noted that, contrary to popular belief, Rene Descartes was not the founder of this philosophical claim.

I do realize that bacteria can't laugh (or cogitate)梐nd that philosophical claims for our greater importance can be based on the consequences of this difference between them and us.

But they also reflect larger philosophical claims he makes about the conflicts.

Catholics, with their own schools, hospitals, hierarchical forms of organization and theological and philosophical claims to authoritative truth, were stubbornly separatist.

The Conferees recognize that a quality scientific education should prepare students to distinguish the data and testable theories of science from religious or philosophical claims that are made in the name of science.

Many other ancient and medieval philosophers applied mathematical ideas and methods to their philosophical claims.