Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sophic .
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Examples
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Methinks his philo-sophical fanboys doth protest too much...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009
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The subject of negations was an old philo - sophical topic, for instance in the Sophist.
LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968
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Medici, did not by any means produce what modern philosophers could recognize as a pure and historically accurate interpretation of Plato in his own philo - sophical writings.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968
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F. Baldinucci, in his dictionary (1681), describes form as a philo - sophical but not aesthetic term, and so does Richelet
Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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It may, thus, be argued that Ficino gave philo - sophical and theological form and system to central attitudes of the Renaissance humanist tradition, partic - ularly to those associated with the theme of the dignity of man.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968
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As late as 1714 Samuel Johnson, an eighteen-year-old tutor at Yale, on the verge of discovering the new learning that was later to inform his own major philo - sophical treatises, made a summary abridgment of the old scholastic system.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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Paradoxes have been considered chiefly to occur in periods in which competing value-systems strengthen philo - sophical pluralism and relativism; certainly the literary paradox occurs in periods marked by considerable disturbance of intellectual patterns.
LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968
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The philo - sophical idealism that Johnson found useful to this end was that of Bishop Berkeley, who lived for a time in
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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A great number of philo - sophical treatises, hymns, religious stories, etc., were composed.
BUDDHISM HAJIME NAKAMURA 1968
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Karl Jaspers examined the significance of the philo - sophical views of various Buddhist thinkers.
BUDDHISM HAJIME NAKAMURA 1968
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