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Aristotelianism

[ ar-uh-stuh-teel-yuh-niz-uhm, -tee-lee-uh-, uh-ris-tuh- ]

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noun

the philosophy of Aristotle.
emphasis upon deduction and upon investigation of concrete and particular things and situations.

First recorded in 1835–45; Aristotelian + -ism

Aristotelianism, however, did not reign without a rival even in the later Middle Ages.

The reforms initiated mainly by Melanchthon had not, indeed, contemplated the overthrow of Aristotelianism.

The modifications upon the almost exclusive Aristotelianism of the first period, were significant.

Like the German Reformers, he had accepted Aristotelianism as a basis, with a similar process of reconciliation.

But Aristotelianism as a system soon ceased to be in vogue, and by the sixth century was no longer known.

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