Sentence examples for scholastic terminology from inspiring English sources

(In Descartes' scholastic terminology, we do not need to know their "formal reality").

Another good example of Valla's reduction of scholastic terminology, distinctions, and concepts is his critique of the transcendental terms.

To translate Tiantai's rather technical scholastic terminology and its typically Buddhist soteriological orientation into something approaching traditional philosophical categories, we can start by identifying a few hashtag themes that are characteristic of Tiantai thinking.

For example, in his correspondence with Jesuit theologian Bartholomew Des Bosses he frequently employs scholastic terminology, and in his correspondence with (largely) Cartesian physicist Burcher de Volder he sometimes presents his views with a Cartesian slant.

While he is not against the introduction of new words for things unknown in antiquity (e.g., bombarda for "cannonball"), the terminology coined by the scholastics is a different matter entirely.

And Valla proved to his own satisfaction that these foundations were shaky by showing that the terminology and vocabulary of the scholastics rested on a misunderstanding of Latin and of the workings of language in general.

Aristotle did not use this terminology, of course, and it should be recognised that he and the scholastics that followed him had few examples of combination, as opposed to alteration and generation and corruption, to draw on.

Before he left, at the age of twenty-two, hadhad made his first important contribution to philosophy a defense of the technical terminology which since Petrarch's time had incited humanist critics of philosophy to attack scholastic Latin as a barbaric violation of classical norms.

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