philosophistic

comparative more philosophistic · superlative most philosophistic

1. Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.

   A philosophy of the French Revolution should take care to avoid such philosphistic procedures.

   1993, Vincent Descombes, The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophies of Current Events, page 45

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   That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated.

   1845, Moses Stuart, A Commentary on the Apocalypse - Volume 2, page 420

   This premodern pitilessness Pettigrew deprecated, but he was less enthusiastic about aspects of modernity other than compassion, like “atheism, deism, and philosophistic religion, so prevalent in the soi-disant enlightened countries.

   2010, Michael O'Brien, Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, →ISBN

   The real epochs are not exempt from philosophistic caprices; the ideal sometimes become converted into a mythology (though full of profound meanings).

   2017, Benedetto Croce, Logic as the Science of the pure Concept, →ISBN