"Scholastic" is a word in ENGLISH
Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the
Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology;
scholastic philosophy.
Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or
schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic
learning.
Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or
needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
See the Note under Jesuit.
One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the
schools.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
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