academism

plural academisms

1. alternativeAlternative form of academicismFirst known use First attested in the mid 18th century.

   For art, academism is death. Academism is the painting in the manner of some one else, whether that other be Greek or Florentine, […]

   1912, Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting: The Modern Genius Part Eight, T. C. and E. C. Jack, page 87

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   Contemporary Canadian art suffers from new academisms. […], her reaction is through Keats, Shelley and Byron. Her writing, based on these is perfection itself but still an academism and therefore non-contributive.

   1935, “The Artist and His Means of Expression”, in The Canadian Author, volumes 13-15, Canadian Authors Association, page 11

1. historicaluncountableThe philosophy of the Platonic Academy; Hellenistic Platonism and skepticism.

   Skeptical Academism, on the other hand, was certainly influenced by Empiricism’s topics […]

   2018, Fabio Stok, “Medical Sects: Herophilus, Erasistratus, Empiricists”, in Paul T. Keyser, John Scarborough, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World, →ISBN, page 371

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   […] since this is the great principle of Academism and Scepticism, That Truth cannot be perceived, […]

   1733, Andrew Baxter, An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul, volume 2, A. Millar, published 1745, page 254