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1. categorical, adj. and n. View full entry 1598
...Logic. Of a proposition: Asserting absolutely or positively; not involving a condition or hypothesis; unqualified. categorical syllogism...
2. connexity, n. View full entry 1603
...The quality of being connected; connectedness....
3. dogmatism, n. View full entry 1603
...Belief in or assertion of dogma; dogmatic character; (more generally) positiveness in the assertion of opinion, now esp. the tendency to lay down principles as undeniably true, without consideration of...
4. entelechy, n. View full entry 1603
...In Aristotle's use: The realization or complete expression of some function; the condition in which a potentiality has become an actuality....
5. Epochist, n. View full entry 1603
...A philosopher of the Ephectic School. Obs....
6. intelligibleness, n. View full entry 1611
...The quality of being intelligible; intelligibility....
7. intentionality, n. View full entry 1611
...The quality or fact of being intentional....
8. New Academic, adj. View full entry 1603
...Of or relating to the New Academy....
9. philosophaster, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who engages in shallow or pretentious philosophizing; a pseudo-philosopher....
10. philosophate, v. View full entry 1603
...intr. To reason as a philosopher; to philosophize....
11. Pyrrhonism, n. View full entry 1603
...A system of sceptical philosophy originally expounded by Pyrrho of Elis; the doctrine of the impossibility of attaining certainty of knowledge; absolute or universal scepticism. Hence more generally: scepticism, philosophic doubt....
