Aristotelian
adjective
of, pertaining to, based on, or derived from Aristotle or his theories.
pseudo-Aristotelian
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a word derived from
Aristotelian.
Example Sentences
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The new philosophy taught by Telesio placed itself in direct antagonism to the pseudo-Aristotelian tenets of the theologians, and founded its own principles upon the Interrogation of Nature.
From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds
It was Horace, in an age of deep dramatic decadence, who re-stated the pseudo-Aristotelian formulas of the Alexandrians as though they were unassailable dogmas of art.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer
The Longinian fire, breathed upon too by the genius of Shakespeare, preserved the eighteenth century from congealing into the utter formalism of pseudo-Aristotelian authority.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
Distinguished contemporaries, foreigners and Frenchmen, have already attacked, both in theory and in practice that fundamental law of the pseudo-Aristotelian code.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
The philosophical group throw light on Campanella's relation to his predecessors and his antagonism to the pseudo-Aristotelian scholasticism of the middle ages.
From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds
