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Scholasticism

🔄 Synonyms of "Scholasticism"

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Word	Definition
academismnoun	(historical) The philosophy of the Platonic Academy; Hellenistic Platonism and skepticism.
academicismnoun	(art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.

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Word	Definition
academicismnoun	(art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
academismnoun	(historical) The philosophy of the Platonic Academy; Hellenistic Platonism and skepticism.
sophismnoun	(countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
scholasticsnoun	studies; curriculum
thomismnoun	(philosophy, theology) The philosophy and theology of Thomas Aquinas.
sophisticismnoun	The philosophy or the methods of the sophists.
sophianismnoun	(Christianity) sophiology
academicalismnoun	Alternative form of academicism. [(classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.]
academynoun	An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
scotismnoun	(theology) Scotist beliefs.
classicismnoun	(uncountable) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
philosophismnoun	spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry
speculative philosophynoun	(uncountable) Philosophy, especially traditional metaphysical philosophy, which makes claims that cannot be verified by everyday experience of the physical world or by a scientific method.
socratismnoun	The philosophy or method of Socrates.
ontotheologynoun	The ontology of God and/or the theology of being; a tradition of philosophical theology first prominent among medieval scholastics, notably Duns Scotus.
samkhyanoun	(Hinduism) One of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy.
aquinismnoun	The philosophy and theology of Thomas Aquinas.
sophiologynoun	(Christianity) A controversial school of thought in Russian Orthodoxy, holding that divine wisdom is to be identified with God's essence, and that this divine wisdom is in some way expressed in the world as 'creaturely' wisdom.
theophilosophynoun	A combination of theism and philosophy.
socraticismnoun	Socratic philosophy.