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Definitions: Scholasticism |
ScholasticismNoun1. The system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers. 2. Orthodoxy of a scholastic variety. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scholasticism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
Synonyms: ScholasticismSynonyms: academicism (n), academism (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In each discipline, the scholastics used a book by a renowed scholar, called auctor, as basic course literature. By reading this book thoroughly and critically, the disciples learned to appreciate the theories of the auctor, and thus of the problems studied in the whole discipline, in a critical and self-confident way. Scholastic works therefore have a tendency to take the form of a long list of "footnotes" to the works studied, not being able to take a stand as theories on their own.
Scholastic philosophy usually combined logic, metaphysics and semantics into one discipline, and is generally recognized to have developed our understanding of logic significantly when compared to the older sources. In the high scholastic period of 1250 - 1350 the philosophy of nature, psychology, epistemology and philosophy of science were also important areas of inquiry.
During the humanism of the 1400s and 1500s, scholastics were put to the background and somewhat forgotten. This has been the source of the view of scholastics as a rigid, formalistic, aged and unproper way of doing philosophy. During the catholic scholastic revival in the late 1800s and early 1900s the scholastics were repopularized, but with a kind of narrow focus on certain scholastics and their respective schools of thought, notably Thomas Aquinas. In this context, scholasticism is often used in theology or metaphysics, but not many other areas of inquiry.
The following authors were commonly used as auctors:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scholasticism."
Crosswords: Scholasticism |
| English words defined with "scholasticism": Anselm ♦ Francois Rabelais ♦ medieval Schoolman ♦ Rabelais ♦ Saint Anselm, scholastic, Schoolman, St Anselm. (references) |
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| "Scholasticism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scholasticism" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
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Ending with "scholasticism": Neo-Scholasticism. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scholasticism | 17 |
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| Language | Translations for "scholasticism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | skolastikë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التمسك الشديد بالتعاليم التقليدية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | схоластичност, схоластика. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scolastique (scholastic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scholastik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκπαιδευτικό δόγμα του μεσαίωνοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | skolasztika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | schoillaraght (scholarship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olasticismschay tendências escolásticas, escolástica. (various references) scolasticã, dogmatism (dogmatism). (various references) схоластика (scholastics). (various references) skolastika, sholastika. (various references) escolasticismo, escolástica. (various references) skolasticism. (various references) skolastik felsefe. (various references) схоластика, догматизм (dogmatism). (various references) triết học kinh viện. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | skholastikos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | scholasticus. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "scholasticism": scholasticisms. (additional references) | |
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"Scholasticism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schlasticism, scholacticism, scholoasticism, scolasticism. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "scholasticism" (pronounced 'Scho*las"ti*cism'): Academicism, AEstheticism, Agnosticism, Anatocism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arsenicism, Asceticism, Asiaticism, Astaticism, Athleticism, Atomicism, Atticism, Autoecism, Biblicism, Briticism, Catholicism, Celticism, Citicism, Civicism, Classicism, Creticism, Criticism, Cynicism, Demoniacism, Didacticism, Dioecism, Doricism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Eleaticism, Electicism, Empiricism, Eroticism, Esotericism, Etacism, Ethnicism, Evangelicism, Exorcism, Exoticism, Fanaticism, Fantasticism, Gallicism, Gnosticism, Gothicism, Grammaticism, Grecism, Hispanicism, Histrionicism, Hypercriticism, Hypochondriacism, Iotacism, Iricism, Itacism, Italicism, laconicism, lambdacism, Lexiphanicism, lyricism, Metacism, Metempiricism, monasticism, Monoecism, Mutacism, Mysticism, Mytacism, Neocriticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Organicism, ostracism, Peripateticism, Phallicism, Physicism, Polsyntheticism, Polysyllabicism, Prosaicism, Rhotacism, romanticism, Rotacism, Scotticism, Seraphicism, Sinicism, skepticism, solecism, stoicism, Suicism, Syriacism, Teutonicism, Turcism, Witticism. (additional references) |
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-2 letters: masochistic, schismatics, scholastics, scholiastic. | |
-3 letters: classicism, classicist, masochists, mosaicists, schismatic, scholastic, scholiasts, socialisms, socialists, stomachics. | |
-4 letters: catholics, chiliasms, chiliasts, halitosis, homilists, iotacisms, masochist, massicots, mosaicist, scholiast, sciolisms, sciolists, socialism, socialist, stoicisms, stomachic. | |
-5 letters: amitosis, catholic, chamisos, chiasmic, chiastic, chiliasm, chiliast, classico, classics, classism, classist, clastics, climatic, coassist, comitial, cosmical, cosmists, holistic, homilist, iotacism, isotachs, laicisms, massicot, miscasts, misclass, mochilas, sashimis, sciatics, sciolism, sciolist, solicits, stoicism, stomachs, tachisms. | |
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+1 letter: scholasticisms. | |
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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 006F 006C 0061 0073 0074 0069 0063 0069 0073 006D |
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