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:

    The philosophy of action for action, power for the sake of power, had become an established orthodoxy. “Thou has conquered, O go-getting Babbitt.”
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)