propaedeutic

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While Scaliger and Casaubon used the humanities as a propaedeutic of the virile reason, the Jesuits contrived to sterilize and mechanize their influences by insipid rhetoric.

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  1. adjective Providing introductory instruction.
  2. noun Preparatory instruction.

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  • Without having to provide a propaedeutic on what it means to be a free human being in body and mind, which all religion denies to us, the notions of fealty, submission, denial of one's humanity, if not through volition, then by militant means, this is what religion demands and exacts from its willing vassals. —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  • He rightly points out that Nagel doesn't know these people, the political motives, and indeed much of the science, let alone the propaedeutic exigencies. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • While Scaliger and Casaubon used the humanities as a propaedeutic of the virile reason, the Jesuits contrived to sterilize and mechanize their influences by insipid rhetoric. —  Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • Ancient logic would be the propaedeutic or gate of approach to logical science,--nothing more. —  Euthydemus
  • Hence, logic is properly only a propaedeutic--forms, as it were, the vestibule of the sciences; and while it is necessary to enable us to form a correct judgement with regard to the various branches of knowledge, still the acquisition of real, substantive knowledge is to be sought only in the sciences properly so called, that is, in the objective sciences Now these sciences, if they can be termed rational at all, must contain elements of a priori cognition, and this cognition may stand in a twofold relation to its object. —  The Critique of Pure Reason
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  1. From Greek propaideuein, to teach beforehand : pro-, before; see pro-2 + paideuein, to teach (from pais, paid-, child; see pedo-2).
 

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