Meanings of philosophical treatise in English

Undoubtedly a scientific work does, and a philosophical treatise should.

The book is, in fact, rather a theologico-natural- philosophical treatise than a work of natural science.

Break Through is a fascinating hybrid: part call to arms, part policy paper, part philosophical treatise.

But then I read your philosophical treatise.

She hadn't thought it worthy of her time to think them out in an obscure philosophical treatise.

He produced but one philosophical treatise; but no man lays down abstract principles more soundly, or better traces their application.

First there was "On Bullshit," a slim philosophical treatise whose phenomenal success took the publishing industry by surprise.

It is not only a scientific monograph, but a philosophical treatise on a subject that will be discussed with increasing interest.

Ross turned to Snipes, expecting Dunbar's comment to provoke a philosophical treatise, but the crew foreman was immersed in his newspaper.

The subject, indeed, would afford matter for a philosophical treatise of deep interest, rather than for a chapter of a small work.

It need hardly be shown that the novel is not a drama, not a history, nor fable, nor any sort of philosophical treatise.

The superior officer was seen in the camp-tent with the obscene Greek romance, the statesman in the senate with the philosophical treatise, in his hands.

To these we must add the "Théodicée" (though more theological than metaphysical) and the "Monadologie", the most compact philosophical treatise of modern time.

He wrote what were considered the most important philosophical treatises of his time.

There appeared to be many philosophical treatises on the matter.

The driest volumes of political economy, the most indigestible of philosophical treatises, nothing came amiss.