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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Aristotle or to his philosophy.
  • noun A follower of Aristotle or his teachings.
  • noun A person whose thinking and methods tend to be empirical, scientific, or commonsensical.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Aristotle (born at Stagira in Macedonia, 384 b. c., died 322 b. c.), the father of logic and the most influential of all philosophers, or to his works, school, or philosophy. See peripatetic.
  • Formal logic, based on the four propositional forms: All S is P; No S is P; Some S is P; Some S is not P.
  • noun A follower of Aristotle. See peripatetic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.).

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  • noun A disciple of Aristotle (for ancient Greek disciples, see peripatetic; for medieval Christian ones, see scholastic)
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Aristotle, his philosophy, logic, or followers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
  • noun a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism

Etymologies

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From Latin Aristoteles + -ānus.

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Examples

  • Consciousness (which is not the same thing as understanding) is likely what we nowadays call an "emergent property" but which in Aristotelian terms did not require a peculiar name.

    March 18th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Philosophical debates over idealization have focused on two general kinds of idealizations: so-called Aristotelian and Galilean idealizations.

    Models in Science Frigg, Roman 2006

  • The so-called Aristotelian dramatic canons, formulated by

    A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

  • The benumbing influence of antiquity -- or rather of that extended period which may be called the Aristotelian age, the age in which all philosophic thought was utterly benumbed by the Greek literature -- has not yet passed away.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856

  • This has been called the Aristotelian Hypothesis, because Aristotle, while he spoke of a Supreme Mind or Reason, maintained not only the eternity of matter, but also the eternity of "substantial forms and qualities."

    Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837

  • None of these interpretations quite captures Bonaventure's relation to these three philosophers or his own approach to the relations among reason, faith, and theology, because they implicitly employed a Thomistic model for being an Aristotelian, with the result that Bonaventure's failures derive from his not being the kind of Aristotelian Thomas Aquinas was.

    Amputee 2009

  • As such, it is about Aristotle's logic, which is not always the same thing as what has been called "Aristotelian" logic.

    Aristotle's Logic Smith, Robin 2007

  • In other words, Leibniz can be interpreted as advocating, at least in this period, a kind of Aristotelian hylomorphism, in which substances are composites of matter and form.

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007

  • Porphyry solves this dilemma by insisting that the so-called Aristotelian categories ” substance, quality, quantity etc., dealt with in the Categories ” are

    Porphyry Emilsson, Eyjólfur 2005

  • Jefferson was "Aristotelian" in his politics, but not in his morality.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

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