Aristotelianism

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

/ ˌær ə stəˈtil yəˌnɪz əm, -ˈti li ə-, əˌrɪs tə- /

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noun

the philosophy of Aristotle.

emphasis upon deduction and upon investigation of concrete and particular things and situations.

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Origin of Aristotelianism

First recorded in 1835–45; Aristotelian + -ism

Related forms

an·ti-Ar·is·to·te·lian·ism, noun

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Examples from the Web for aristotelianism

Like the German Reformers, he had accepted Aristotelianism as a basis, with a similar process of reconciliation.
Practical Essays|Alexander Bain
The difficulty was increased with the advent of Aristotelianism in the thirteenth century.
Medival Heresy and the Inquisition|A. S. Turberville
People would no longer be fed on the dry crust of Aristotelianism or be satisfied with the intellectual jugglery of the Schoolmen.
The Eighteen Christian Centuries|James White
Harvey did not break with Aristotelianism; on the contrary, he lent considerable authority to it.
Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England|Charles W. Bodemer

But Aristotelianism as a system soon ceased to be in vogue, and by the sixth century was no longer known.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor