However this constancy of the order was the reason why philosophers adopted the French language.

Some philosophers and Christians resisted the demands of the body and the pleasures of food, and adopted fasting as an ideal.

Karl Popper comments that Peirce's theory received little contemporary attention, and that other philosophers did not adopt indeterminism until the rise of quantum mechanics.

Her "naturalist" position, like Quine's, suggests that since science is our most successful project so far for knowing about the world, philosophers should adopt the methods of science in their own discipline, and especially when discussing science.

Marxist theorist Louis Althusser, for example, defined philosophy as "class struggle in theory", thus radically separating himself from those who claimed philosophers could adopt a "God's eye view" as a purely neutral judge.

David Lewis called this the Principal Principle, a term that philosophers have mostly adopted.

Other philosophers, however, adopt a non-physicalist position which challenges the notion that the mind is a purely physical construct.

Jesuit philosophers and theologians adopted a series of the Scotist propositions.

However, Kahan notes that later Greek philosophers generally did not adopt Plato's extreme position of rejecting private property and the making of money.

Most modern philosophers of mind adopt either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.