ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Philosophistic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Philosophistic is an adjective meaning Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

A philosophy of the French Revolution should take care to avoid such philosphistic procedures.
That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated.
The real epochs are not exempt from philosophistic caprices; the ideal sometimes become converted into a mythology (though full of profound meanings).
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include philosophistical, sophistic, phylosophicall, philosophastering, pseudosophisticated, phylosophical.

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