Sentence examples for scholastic science from inspiring English sources

Caviedes, as did other poets of the Barroco de Indias, found the scholastic "science" of the time lacking and showed a modern impatience with its crude methods of observation and reliance on received authority.

Since Aristotelian and scholastic "science" sought an absolute certitude that is unobtainable through natural reason and can be attained only by religious faith, rhetorical argumentation in the fashion of ancient orators like Cicero can enable scholars to form opinions on debatable questions and to demonstrate convincingly which of several possible solutions to a debatable issue was probably true.

The attack on innate ideas is thus the first step in the demolition of the scholastic model of science and knowledge.

This suggests that the scholastic performances of science and humanities students are almost the same.

LONDON — At first blush "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries," here at the National Gallery, has the quaint, cheerfully scholastic earnestness of a science fair.

With Jean Marzollo ("I Spy" and the "I Am" books for Scholastic's "Hello Reader! Science Series"), 1 to 3 p.m. Free with museum admission, $7.50 $55 for children 4 to 17; under 4, free.

Crescas assembles traditional Jewish opinion, the diverse Aristotelian sources, the neo-platonic thought of the apostate Abner of Burgos and the new science of scholastics of the 14th century to create an original philosophical opinion and critique of Aristotelianism known to the medieval period.

The sustained argument in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding for rejecting the old scholastic model of knowledge and science in favor of empirically disciplined modes of inquiry was enormously successful.

The National Academy of Engineering, the National Science Foundation, the leaders of top universities, and the president of the United States all agree: in order for our nation to remain economically competitive and technologically innovative, we must improve our national scholastic performance in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.

There are various areas within the scholastic system of arts and sciences where a rich tradition of semiotic questions and answers accumulated over the centuries (Maierù 1981; Meier-Oeser 1997, 42 170; Fuchs 1999).

"A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder," Walter Wick (Scholastic).