Descartes 'famous rules are per - haps best described as propaedeutic, or even as prophylactic, injunctions. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The Journal of a Tour in Corsica is but a propaedeutic study. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference
A deliberation is a weighing-up, as a propaedeutic to action. From Wordnik.com. [Søren Kierkegaard] Reference
There is nothing better than mathematics as propaedeutic for literary criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of the Aesthetic] Reference
As a propaedeutic to democratic participation, political action of this sort is invaluable. From Wordnik.com. [Civic Education] Reference
I feel a bit out of my depth here, but I hope you will allow me to mention the propaedeutic values of Esperanto. From Wordnik.com. [Syriac, Aramaic, and Mandaic: Learn One Language, Three Dialects, For The Price Of Five Alphabets] Reference
I suggest not only because it has become a living language, but because it has great propaedeutic values as well. From Wordnik.com. [Web Translations » Blog Archive » Language learning: how much is too much?] Reference
Four schools in Britain have introduced this neutral international language, in order to test its propaedeutic values. From Wordnik.com. [Talking in New Tongues -- How Easy is It?] Reference
As a propaedeutic exercise it is still very much alive, and nobody can estimate its usefulness as an intellectual gymnasium outside of school. From Wordnik.com. [One-Dimensional Man] Reference
You may not know that four schools in Britain have introduced Esperanto, the neutral international language, in order to test its propaedeutic values?. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Ave! Radio station to air show in Latin] Reference
Medieval Aristotelians tended to locate rhetoric in the trivium (which also included logic and dialectic), and, thus, as propaedeutic to “higher” sciences such as metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Judah Abrabanel] Reference
Theaetetus, the hero of the battle of Corinth and of the dialogue, is a disciple of Theodorus, the great geometrician, whose science is thus indicated to be the propaedeutic to philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Theaetetus] Reference
Or we can pass from this simplified propaedeutic to the problems of the real world in which our previous expectations are liable to disappointment and expectations concerning the future affect what we do to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
When Kant had broached the idea of a phenomenological propaedeutic to Lambert, he himself had still believed in the project of a purely conceptual metaphysics achievable by the use of the regressive or “analytic” method. From Wordnik.com. [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel] Reference
Both senses rely on the assumption that art is justified by its indirect service to knowledge and individual resource in facing future situations; and as such may be seen as a development of the propaedeutic justification for children's play and the adult agon. From Wordnik.com. [ART AND PLAY] Reference
Called a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, this 'propaedeutic enchiridion' came with its own power pack, a voice-recognition interface, 'smart paper' computer pages, 'nanoreceptors' to measure the reader's pulse, and a database that amounted to 'a catalogue of the collective unconscious. '. From Wordnik.com. [Cri de Coeur] Reference
In fact, by adopting this starting point in Sehdinge, Hering would have recognized the methodological primacy of phenomenology over the other sciences and its propaedeutic status in the study of the essential properties or attributes (space, intensity, brightness, etc.) of sense phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [On A Trans-Atlantic Flight] Reference
From Magical to Analogical Thinking: The System of Corrospondences Though Shankara's path of jnana yoga ultimately rejects the idea that the self has dimensions or a location, it does recognize the propaedeutic and metaphoric role such conceptions play within the Vedanta system of meditation-devotion upasana. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Ancient logic would be the propaedeutic or gate of approach to logical science, -- nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [Euthydemus] Reference
Let it not be thought, however, that what is here demanded is already extant in the propaedeutic prefixed by the celebrated Wolf. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
He rightly points out that Nagel doesn't know these people, the political motives, and indeed much of the science, let alone the propaedeutic exigencies. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Scaliger and Casaubon used the humanities as a propaedeutic of the virile reason, the Jesuits contrived to sterilize and mechanize their influences by insipid rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
In the colleges and pre-professional schools we jurists may acquire a little scientific psychology as a "philosophical propaedeutic," but we all know how insufficient it is and how little of it endures in the business of life. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
Let it not be thought, however, that what is here demanded is already extant in the propaedeutic prefixed by the celebrated Wolf to his moral philosophy, namely, his so-called general practical philosophy, and that, therefore, we have not to strike into an entirely new field. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals] Reference
Iliad XV, 363) as well as in other authors of antiquity (cf. Pauly-Wissowa, article “Spiel”) in which the propaedeutic value of childhood games is. From Wordnik.com. [ART AND PLAY] Reference
“propaedeutic sciences” in that their field of study represents the raw materials, and the starting point of both the natural and social sciences. From Wordnik.com. [On A Trans-Atlantic Flight] Reference
Ever since Late Antiquity Aristotelian logic and natural philosophy had been commonly regarded as propaedeutic to Platonic metaphysics, and the hierarchical relation between the two philosophers was now increasingly stressed, sometimes (as in Nikephoros Gregoras™. From Wordnik.com. [Byzantine Philosophy] Reference
Your proctitic yet propaedeutic pal. From Wordnik.com. [The gods - they walk amongst us.] Reference
Corsica is but a propaedeutic study. From Wordnik.com. [Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood] Reference
Philosophy is the propaedeutic of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Hegelian propaedeutic of the doctrine of Ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Parmenides] Reference
Let it not be thought, however, that what is here demanded is already extant in the propaedeutic prefixed by the celebrated Wolf to his moral philosophy, namely, his so-called general practical philosophy, and that, therefore, we have not to strike into an entirely new field. just because it was to be a general practical philosophy, it has not taken into consideration a will of any particular kind - say one which should be determined solely from a priori principles without any empirical motives, and which we might call a pure will, but volition in general, with all the actions and conditions which belong to it in this general signification. From Wordnik.com. [PREFACE] Reference
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