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academism
English
Etymology
en :af academy -ism 1 +
Noun
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en historical The philosophy of the Platonic Academy; Hellenistic Platonism and skepticism.
en 1733 w:Andrew Baxter An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul 2 A. Millar 1745 254 since this is the great principle of Academism and Scepticism, That Truth cannot be perceived,
en 2018 Fabio Stok Medical Sects: Herophilus, Erasistratus, Empiricists Paul T. Keyser; John Scarborough The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World 9780199734146 371 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NfxdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA371 Skeptical Academism, on the other hand, was certainly influenced by Empiricism’s topics
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