scholastic
- adjective
- /skəˈlæstɪk/
- Specialized
- Similar considerations lead to Descartes's rejection of the scholastic account of concept formation.
- scholastic theology
- scholastic philosophy
- scholastic philosophers
Examples
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Lonergan was schooled in a Scholastic and Thomistic curriculum.
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"The main questions of that scholastic thought of the thirteenth century seem to have been these," J. W. Allen wrote:
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The same may be said in general of the Scholastic argument ex convenientia.
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58 Scholastic philosophers disagree over whether prime matter could exist without substantial form.
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God alone is, in the scholastic phrase, actus purus, and he alone is entirely without body.
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Grounded in the scholastic tradition, Schell builds bridges to an evolutionary way of thinking.
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Indeed, the philosophical approach of contemporary sacramental theologians challenges the previously normative approach of Scholastic theology.
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Here, the Scholastic dictum that grace completes and perfects nature comes to the fore.
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Pannenberg's preference for truth as "coherence" does not adequately represent the Scholastic term "adaequatio."
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Many universities offer a curriculum that is deeply rooted in scholastic philosophy.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scholastic can also describe the medieval system called scholasticism, a way university teachers in the Middle Ages used careful study and logical argument. So scholastic in history means 'relating to that school method of thought'.