philosophizing

• He battles with her about her mania of philosophizing, her wish to sift everything and to get to the bottom of everything. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
• This philosophizing is intended as a preface or premonitory symptom of a story, illustrative of the trait; which, like measles, when repelled by cold air, has struck in upon my memory, and which, carrying out the idea, requires, like the aforesaid measles, to be brought to the surface in order that I may feel relieved. —  The Swamp Doctor's Adventures
• I like the reference to the "Kantian humanistic imperative" - this kind of semi-philosophizing is a sure sign of a crank who's much less clever than he thinks he is. —  British Blogs
• I answer, No The error committed is, I conceive, that of overlooking the distinction between the two parts of the process of philosophizing--the inferring part and the registering part; and ascribing to the latter the functions of the former. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
• Thus philosophizing, the question would be: Have revolutions a fixed law? —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

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