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  • noun A follower of Ramism.

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  • Linguistic values and religious experiences: An analysis of clothing metaphors in Alexander Richardson's Ramist-Puritan lectures on speech, "Speech is a garment to cloath our reason."

    American Rhetoric - Christian Rhetoric Scholarly Reference Guide 2010

  • Because Ramist logic made possible a more concise presentation of different questions, it proved more advantageous than scholasticism to Protestant theologians, who began to set out their doctrines in the form of loci or brief passages on a specific topic.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • Logic, according to the Ramist and Stoic perspective, is a part of philosophy.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • Therefore, to understand the development of Ramist logic, we have to pay attention to this scholastic background, as well as to Cicero, who played a key role in the advance of humanist logic.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • Although his followers preferred to call their philosophy Socratic rather than Ramist, in order to avoid the accusation of slavish trust in his authority, this tactic was not very successful.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • Yet, at the same time, he emphatically declared that every adherent of Ramist philosophy must swear to the principle of libertas philosophandi, the freedom to philosophize.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • Institutio (though the discussion of demonstration in Book IV has clear Ramist debts).

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • The same may not be said for his Ramist conception.

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • Since he had imposed order on the quotations, he expressed his own thought, following the strict rules of Ramist logic, through the authority of the ancients.

    Justus Lipsius Papy, Jan 2004

  • The Baconian conception of scientific method, despite all that is distinctive about it, still moves on the terrain of the Ramist definition of dispo - sitio as apta inventarum rerum collocatio.

    BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968

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