dephilosophise

English

Verb

dephilosophise (third-person singular simple present dephilosophises, present participle dephilosophising, simple past and past participle dephilosophised)

1. Alternative form of dephilosophize
   • 2007, Meera Chakravorty, Consciousness, Time, and Praxis, page 35:

     The theory to repsychologise the philosophical account should not be misunderstood with an idea to dephilosophise it.

   • 2015, Jon Nixon, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship, page 86:

     He was a man full of contradictions: an intensely private man who lived and flourished through his realtionships with others; a German patriot who demanded that post-war Germany acknowledge its own guilt and restore itself from the basis of that acknowledgement; a psychiatrist who rejected the psychiatric categorisation of mental disorder; a philosopher who sought to dephilosophise philosophy.

   • 2016, Heidi Yeandle, Angela Carter and Western Philosophy, page 41:

     While Carter adheres to the circularity of Plato's Cave analogy by beginning and ending her novel in cinematic caves, Carter uses this cyclicity to deconstruct Plato's philosophy—to dephilosophise.