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Syncretism

noun
1.
The union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy).
2.
The fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections).





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... successive scholarchs that the Academy has been divided into either two, three or five main sections (Sext. Empir. Pyrrh. Hyp. i. 220). Finally,in the days of Philo, Antiochus and Cicero, the metaphysical dogmatism of Plato had been changed into an ethical syncretism which combined elements from the Scepticism of Carneades and the doctrines of the Stoics; it was a change from a dogmatism which men found impossible to defend, to a probabilism which afforded a retreat from Scepticism and intellectual anarchy. Cicero represents at once ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Syncretism" :   syncretic, syncretistical, fusion, syncretistic, union, unification, syncretical, syncretize


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