pre-theoretical

For an account of English romanticism's pre-theoretical invention of psychoanalysis, see Faflak.

Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008

However, the theory needed to be defended both against rival philosophical theories and against pre-theoretical intuitions that militate in favor of these theories.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

For example, if sensations and perceptual experiences are characterized in terms of their places in a “quality space” determined by a person's pre-theoretical judgments of similarity and dissimilarity (and perhaps also in terms of their tendencies to produce various emotional effects), then these characterizations may qualify as a priori, even though they would have to be elicited by a kind of

Functionalism Levin, Janet 2009

In the debate, direct arguments have played a prominent role since these fit the idea, implicit in Kripke, that the claim that meaning is normative provides a pre-theoretical constraint on any acceptable theory of meaning; one that has to be accepted independently of one's specific semantic theory.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

As Hattiangadi argues, the semantic normativist's case might then prove hostage to whatever controversial assumptions these arguments rely on (motivational internalism, for instance, might be such an issue), thus removing normativism further from being the pre-theoretical constraint on acceptable accounts of meaning/content that Kripke's skeptic meant it to be.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

Again, this seems reasonable and not unduly ad hoc, inasmuch as it incorporates the strong pre-theoretical intuition that substances are continuants rather than events.

Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009

Vision had cut us off from the ancient wisdom of ordinary pre-theoretical mutuality, annihilating vocality and, with it, the “inward kinship of I and Thou”.

What you see is what you get? Matthew Guerrieri 2006

They invite them by articulating themes that stay relatively close to the pre-theoretical experience that gives rise to the practical problems of moral life (see Kupperman, 1999 on the role of experience in Chinese philosophy).

Chinese Ethics Wong, David 2008

Further, given Christian views about the content of God's commands, this identification fits well with widespread pre-theoretical intuitions about wrongness; and given Christian views about human receptivity to divine communication and God's willingness to communicate both naturally and supernaturally,

Theological Voluntarism Murphy, Mark 2008

Vision had cut us off from the ancient wisdom of ordinary pre-theoretical mutuality, annihilating vocality and, with it, the “inward kinship of I and Thou”.

Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006