The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
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The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(Stoic philosophy) a matter having no moral merit or demerit.; "Esteem (or reputation, fame, glory) was for Stoics an adiaphoron, and…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.Alt. of Aesthetical
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of thing…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of thing…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) The doctrine of Cyrenaics that people should ultimately aim at the pleasure of the present moment, disregarding future pa…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.Alt. of Esthetics
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
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Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.of Decide
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal messa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, purpose.To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
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