synthetic philosophy

American  

noun

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

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synthetic philosophy

It was on his recovery from his first grave attack that he shaped the plan which henceforth held him, of organising the modern sciences and incorporating them into what he called a synthetic philosophy.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

Indeed, there is a hint that a synthetic philosophy is exactly what Davidson never seeks to attain.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

A book of his, devoted to a synthetic philosophy of song, is completed for publication; he calls it "Spenser, Darwin, Tyndall, etc., in sugar-coated pills; geography, electricity, and hundreds of other things in song."

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert