Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scholasticism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scholasticism \Scho*las"ti*cism\, n.
The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy;
scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned
laborious investigation and slow induction. --J. P.
Smith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
scholasticism
n 1: the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based
on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
2: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: {academicism}, {academism}]
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