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Aristotelian

[ US /ɝˌɪstəˈtiɫiən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
    Aristotelean logic

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  • By insisting that Aristotelian forms were spiritual substances distinct from matter, professors equally made room for the logical possibility of bodiless invisible spirits at work in the universe.
  • Theophrastus sustained the Aristotelian character of the Lyceum.
  • In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
  • The common sense stands midway between the corporeal sense of sight and the imagination, which is in the anterior chamber of the brain, and is known as phantasy (Aristotelian φαντασία). A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
  • Behind this kind of ethic stands the Aristotelian notion of entelechy: humans have a natural potential to develop rationality and through it acquire virtuous character. Guess Who Was At The Party?
  • In particular, we shall look at the issue of whether objects must be individuated under the kind of sortal expressions that correspond to Aristotelian substance concepts, or whether a more generic notion, such as physical body, will suffice. Substance
  • Intelligence in fiction, then, is usually conceived as a variety of Aristotelian dianoia:Under Thought dianoia is included every effect which has to be produced by speech, the subdivisions being: proof and refutation; the excitation of the feelings, such as pity, fear, anger, and the like; the suggestion of importance or its opposite. Plot and thought
  • In those days the study of nature turned away from the Aristotelian world view with its em - phasis on qualitative change and teleological reasoning. NUMBER
  • And what standards of evaluation are appropriate for comparing the strengths and weaknesses of different ethical theories Kantianism, Aristotelianism, utilitarianism, ... Sociological knowledge
  • Much effort has gone into exploring ways in which a science like, say, biology could fit such a model, and it is generally agreed that the model is unsuitably rigid for many Aristotelian sciences.
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