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philosophistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From philo- + sophistic.

Meanings

1. Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.
   • That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated. 1845, Moses Stuart, A Commentary on the Apocalypse - Volume 2, page 420:
   • A philosophy of the French Revolution should take care to avoid such philosphistic procedures. 1993, Vincent Descombes, The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophies of Current Events, page 45:
   • This premodern pitilessness Pettigrew deprecated, but he was less enthusiastic about aspects of modernity other than compassion, like “atheism, deism, and philosophistic religion, so prevalent in the soi-disant enlightened countries. 2010, Michael O'Brien, Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, →ISBN:
   • The real epochs are not exempt from philosophistic caprices; the ideal sometimes become converted into a mythology (though full of profound meanings). 2017, Benedetto Croce, Logic as the Science of the pure Concept, →ISBN:

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