Meaning of philosophistic | Babel Free

Definitions

Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.

Examples

“That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated.”

“A philosophy of the French Revolution should take care to avoid such philosphistic procedures.”

“This premodern pitilessness Pettigrew deprecated, but he was less enthusiastic about aspects of modernity other than compassion, like “atheism, deism, and philosophistic religion, so prevalent in the soi-disant enlightened countries.”

“The real epochs are not exempt from philosophistic caprices; the ideal sometimes become converted into a mythology (though full of profound meanings).”

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