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- noun Plural form of
Schoolman .
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Criticism of the latter is implied in one of the Pseudo-Augustine letters, where Jerome chides Augustine for indulging in the kind of speculative metaphysics that characterized the theology of the so-called Schoolmen in the late medieval universities.
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"Introduction" were the only Aristotelean works known to the first of the Schoolmen, that is to say, to the Christian philosophers of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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This was the reason he applied himself to the right ear, differently from his followers, who are called Schoolmen, and who do not proceed from thought to terms, but from terms to thoughts, thus by
Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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As mentioned above, Drusas is a Mandate Schoolmen, a Gnostic school;although it is not as large as others, all schools seek the secrets of the Gnosis.
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker – review 2009
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“There are three, and only three kinds of men in world; cynics, fantics, and Mandate Schoolmen” – Ontillas, On the Folly of Men
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker – review 2009
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Drusas, like all Mandate Schoolmen, is reminded of his charge or mandate, if you will in horrific dreams of the first apocalypse every time he sleeps.
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker – review 2009
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Esmenet, a prostitute in search of her Mandate Schoolmen lover, to lessen the burden of his guilty soul and in hopes find her own.
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker – review 2009
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For more on the views of the Schoolmen on prices, see Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics, by Alejandro Chafuen.
Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008
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Schoolmen had framed a number of subtle and intricate axioms, and theorems, to save the practice of the church.
The Essays 2007
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Neither is the opinion of some of the Schoolmen, to be received, that a war cannot justly be made, but upon a precedent injury, or provocation.
The Essays 2007
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