Zetetic

Quick meaning: Zetetic is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Proceeding by inquiry or investigation.

Meaning

(philosophy) Proceeding by inquiry or investigation.

More Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to zetetic astronomy (which employs zetetic principles to argue that the earth is flat).
2. A skeptic.

Example Sentences

This^([the assumption that the earth is an extended plain]) is the great central zetetic assumption on which the whole theory is based.

The zetetic approach or, as Kant translates it, the searching approach, becomes the element by means of which the discourse develops, the medium in which philosophical thinking occurs.

1865, Samuel Birley Rowbotham, Zetetic Astronomy, 2022 facsimile reprint, Salzwasser Verlag, page 6, Hence, in every zetetic process, the conclusion arrived at is essentially a quotient, which, if the details be correct, must, of necessity, be true beyond the reach or power of contradiction.

This^([the assumption that the earth is flat]) is the doctrine held by the Zetetic school of philosophy, which some years ago made quite a stir in England.[…]An active propagandist of Zetetic doctrine is Professor William Carpenter, 71 Chew street, who has been in this country for about five years.

Word Forms

• zetetical
• zetetick
• zetetics

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zetetick, epistemological, discursive, autoepistemic, phenomenological, scientifico-philosophical.

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