Aristotelian Definition

aristətēlyən, aristətēlēən
adjective
Of or relating to Aristotle or to his philosophy.
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Of or characteristic of Aristotle or his philosophy.
Webster's New World
Of or pertaining to Aristotle, his philosophy, logic, or followers.
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noun
A follower of Aristotle or his teachings.
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A follower of Aristotle or his philosophy.
Webster's New World
A person whose thinking and methods tend to be empirical, scientific, or commonsensical.
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A person who tends to be empirical or practical in outlook, rather than abstract, speculative, or idealistic.
Webster's New World

A disciple of Aristotle (for ancient Greek disciples, see peripatetic; for medieval Christian ones, see scholastic)

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Aristotelian
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  • The view (traceable no doubt to the Aristotelian definition) that equity mitigates the hardships of the law where the law errs through being framed in universals, is to be found in some of the earlier writings.

  • It ended the old Aristotelian distinction between the sphere beneath the moon and the starry spaces beyond.

  • His Logic, Metaphysics, Physics, De Caelo, are treatises giving a synoptic view of Aristotelian doctrine.

  • The Aristotelian school in Islam did not speak with one voice upon the question; Avicenna declared the soul immortal, but Averroes assumes only the eternity of the universal intellect.

  • The cosmology of this period consists for the most part of the Aristotelian teleological view of nature combined with the Christian idea of the Deity and His relation to the world.

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