scholasticism
- n the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
- n orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- His "pragmatism" turned the face of thought from considering the quiddities of scholasticism and the post-mortems of Evolution to the future, to "practical results.
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- Catholic theology, dominated by a textbook scholasticism, appeared to have stopped in the 13th century.