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  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    ACADEMICKS, Academici, Academists, a Sect of ancient Philosophers, founded by Plato, and called, also, the Academy. See ACADEMY. The Academicks, in the later Ages, have taken the Name of Platonists. See PLATONIST. The great Dogma of the Academics was...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPEARANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEARANCE

    the exterior Surface of a Thing; or that which first strikes the Sense, or the Imagination. See EXTERIOR and SURFACE. The Academics maintain, that the sensible Qualities of Bodies are only Appearances; and the like Doctrine is held by some later...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APORE

    of Humours. See PORE. When a Question was proposed to any of the Greek Philosophers, especially of the Sect of Academics; if he could not give a Solution, his Answer was ἀπορῶ, q.d., I do not conceive it, I cannot see through it, I am not able to clear...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACADEMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMY

    See RABBINS, CABBALA, &c. The Jews have had of these Academies, ever since their Return from the Babylonish Captivity. The Academics of Tiberias and Babylon are celebrated.See TIBERIAS, MASSORETES, TALMUD, &c. Academy is particularly understood of a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    Athenians to King Philip, he found, at his Return, that Xenocrates, during his Absence, had put himself at the Head of the Academic Sect; upon which he chose the Lyceum for the future Scene of his Disputations. See LYCEUM. It being his Practice to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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