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n. - Profound scholarly knowledge.

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  • This encyclopedism does not preclude lack of actual experience.
  • This was one of the primary goals of Byzantine scholarship in the tenth century; rather than creating new knowledge and areas of study, the scholars of that era labored to...
  • By the end of the sixteenth century, the humanistic, creative period of the Renaissance was thus disciplined and intellectualized, so that eclecticism flowered into...
  • Page 460, Volume 3 which we have already noted became important in affecting changes in philosophy, and therefore also in the ideal of a perennial philosophy: the revival of...
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