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It is certainly remarkable that Schoolmen Webb and Taft were both: Prohibitionists, believers in a strong Classical education, users of homely illustrations; but the former antedating the latter by some 20 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence no disquisitions on the latter subject will be found in these pages: the Moderate Realism of Aristotle and the Schoolmen is assumed throughout.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

It was this ontological question that was so hotly and bewilderingly debated among the Schoolmen.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The Schoolmen had used it to describe whatever could not be comprehended in or classified under the so-called categories of Aristotle, who was the recognized prince of the intellectual world.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Rejected by his own people, the fame of Averro�s came later through his study by European Schoolmen.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle