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THINKERS |
Philosophers |
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SYMPOSIAC |
A conference or conversation of philosophers at a
banquet; hence, any similar gathering. |
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PYTHAGOREAN |
A follower of Pythagoras; one of the school of
philosophers founded by Pythagoras. |
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DEIPNOSOPHIST |
One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who
cultivated learned conversation at meals. |
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ANTIOCHIAN |
Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero,
and the founder of a sect of philosophers. |
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PREEXISTENCE |
Existence of the soul before its union with the body;
-- a doctrine held by certain philosophers. |
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ELEMENT |
One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient
philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter. |
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MAGI |
A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among
the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East. |
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DIVERS |
Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great
number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or
pronominally. |
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ACATALEPSY |
Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the
ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to
certainty, but only to probability. |
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CYNICAL |
Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics;
having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the
doctrines of the cynics. |
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NOMINALIST |
One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who
adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or
universals, exist in name only. |
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CYRENIAN |
One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by
Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the
same as those of the Epicureans. |
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LAPUTAN |
Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island
described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers.
Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. |
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ARCHEUS |
The vital principle or force which (according to the
Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living
beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. |
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ELEATIC |
Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers
who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to
the senses, and all to the reason. |
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AVERROIST |
One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared
in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from
Averroes, or Averrhoes... |
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REDINTEGRATION |
... combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one
another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of
t... |
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GYMNOSOPHIST |
One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been
found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied
themselves the use of fle... |
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ESOTERIC |
...d
more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to
exoteric. ... |
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ROSICRUCIAN |
...f the
18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply
versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed,... |
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OCCASIONALISM |
...to
certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the
intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent
... |
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CYNIC |
One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by
Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were
noted for austere li... |
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GNOSTIC |
One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of
Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the
Christian religion.... |
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THEOSOPHY |
...r by the chemical processes of
the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a
revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be ... |