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Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.

An Academic philosopher.

r Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

athing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

rowth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinde…

That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.

Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). -- n.