"Hobbism" is a word in ENGLISH

An Academic philosopher.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical …

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only …

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name …

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the …

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, …

Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.).

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, …

The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene Descartes, or his philosophy.

The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in …

Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher.

One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first …

Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines …

One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the …

One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance …

A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common …

Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.