Such a philosophically sanctioned inquiry for chemistry meant, however, that it resolved mixt bodies into the three spagyric principles.
The concluding chapter attacks several naturalistic explanations of the origin of the universe proposed by philosophically unsophisticated scientists.
Or perhaps there is a perfectly acceptable, philosophically respectable sense in which, quite literally, states have mental states.
It is perfectly respectable, philosophically speaking, to argue that they existed as thunderbolts for (certain) 17th century people, and acted as such within their world.
Idealism, like any philosophically decent metaphysics, can be logically sustained in the teeth of any evidence, if one isn't scared of wild ideas.
I refer the reader to the above-cited works for more fully developed and philosophically grounded versions of this argument.
And there are difficulties, both practically and philosophically.
This is certainly a possible program, but it is not clear that it has ever been philosophically defended.
