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  • noun Plural form of syncretism.

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  • There are many such imperfect syncretisms or eclecticisms in the history of philosophy.

    The Sophist 2006

  • Isma‘il, who claimed descent from the founder of the movement, the Sufi leader Sheik Safi al-Din (1252–1334), embraced Shi’ism, although some of his beliefs—in his own divine qualities, messianic mission, and infallibility—reflected the religious syncretisms of the contemporary Safavid milieu.

    b. Iran 2001

  • The bolder allegorical syncretisms arise when the elements to be contained by the allegory are histori - cally accidental inclusions within an inherited literary corpus.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968

  • Beside that, the mystery religions were syncretisms of one another and Christianity is untainted by them.

    Planet Atheism The Avangelism Project 2010

  • Aristotle, whether we suppose them to have come directly from his hand or to be the tradition of his school, is sufficient to show how great was the mental activity which prevailed in the latter half of the fourth century B.C.; what eddies and whirlpools of controversies were surging in the chaos of thought, what transformations of the old philosophies were taking place everywhere, what eclecticisms and syncretisms and realisms and nominalisms were affecting the mind of Hellas.

    Philebus 2006

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