Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or teaching wisdom; sapiential.
- Relating to the philosophic opinions of man, including the beliefs of primitive tribes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Teaching wisdom.
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- adjective obsolete
Teaching wisdom .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This concept suggests that all metals are composed of different proportions of a sophic sulphur and a sophic mercury.
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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As a philo - sophic theory and world view, it was a tradition de - scending from ancient Epicureanism, and opposed to mysticism, Platonism, and metaphysical dualism.
IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968
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The Hindu conception of deity combines, or rather comprises, two distinctive traditions, which might be conveniently designated the “popular” and the “philo - sophic.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968
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It might be thus congenial for one period of history to be imbued with a religious world outlook, yet this world outlook is superseded by another spirit of the time which is scientific or philo - sophic and thus overcomes the limitations and the validity of the religious world outlook.
ZEITGEIST NATHAN ROTENSTREICH 1968
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Although there are other such vestiges of pre-philo - sophic ideas among earliest Greek philosophers, Greek philosophy's formal beginnings succeeded in making considerable advances beyond this style of thought.
CAUSATION JULIUS WEINBERG 1968
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Some belong to the literature of whimsy and escape, others to science fiction, a considerable number to satire, and many to that ill-defined genre, the philo - sophic tale.
UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968
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This concept suggests that all metals are composed of different proportions of a sophic sulphur and a sophic mercury.
Alchemy 1968
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These questions were not merely of technical philo - sophic interest.
IDEA GEORGE BOAS 1968
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Dante as the poet who synthesized previous philo - sophic, literary, and popular ideas brings a vast eclec - ticism into the concepts of Fortune, Fate, and Chance.
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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This view developed as a result of two things; first, the publica - tion in 1932 of Marx's manuscripts written in 1844 before Marx had become a Marxist (on the other two views), which the editors entitled Economic and Philo - sophic Manuscripts, and second, the revolt against
MARXISM SIDNEY HOOK 1968
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