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nd his philosophie. Chaucer. We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke.

The philosophy of nature.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

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.

where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

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.

alize. 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.

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

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.

Extremely minute; tiny. Atomic philosophy, or Doctrine of atoms, a system which assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is…

In an atomic manner; in accordance with the atomic philosophy.

The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory. Locke.

rtaining to atoms; relating to atomism. [R.] It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. Coleridge.