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synthetic philosophy

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noun

  1. the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, intended as a synthesis of all the sciences.


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Which leads us to the really interesting point - almost universally overlooked by Western scholars, with a few honourable exceptions, like Cambridge's Peter Nolan: Mao's analytic/synthetic philosophy is China's genuine secret weapon, although much neglected even in China today.

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On looking back over the six-and-thirty years which I have passed since the Synthetic Philosophy was commenced, I am surprised at my audacity in undertaking it, and still more surprised by its completion.

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From these last two Essays came the inception of the Synthetic Philosophy.

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The record of these facts is of some moment as evidencing that the scheme of the Synthetic Philosophy took definite shape in 1857.

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Francisco, 222.Synthetic philosophy, 182.—— abstract of the, 195, 199.—— first draft of, 199.

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