Academism

See also: academism

English

Etymology

academy +‎ -ism

Noun

Academism (uncountable)

1. (historical) The philosophy of the Platonic Academy; Hellenistic Platonism and skepticism.
   • 1733, Andrew Baxter, An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul, volume 2, A. Millar, published 1745, page 254:

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

   • 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:

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