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Definition of Eclectics
1. eclectic [n] - See also: eclectic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclectics
Literary usage of Eclectics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy by Eduard Zeller (1883)
"Eclectics WHO BELONG TO NO DEFINITE SCHOOL— DIO, LUCIAN, GALEN. ... The number
F is much smaller of those who belong to no particular Eclectics school, but, ..."
2. Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Robert Studley Vidal, James Murdock (1854)
"The Eclectics. Since the little of good that presented itself in the tenets of
any of these various sects was sullied and deformed by an abundant alloy of ..."
3. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"In this sense Plato and Aristotle, and perhaps all thinkers, are eclectics.
But the name was specially applied in the second century to the New Platonists ..."
4. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"CHAPTER XXXIV Eclectics Although John of Salisbury is perhaps the only professedly
eclectic philosopher of this period, the eclectic tendency is apparent in ..."
5. The Dictionary of Religion: An Encyclopedia of Christian and Other Religious by William Benham (1887)
"The Eclectics professed to bo seekers after truth, and, for the purpose of ...
The aim of the original Eclectics was to reconcile part of the doctrines of ..."
6. Initiation Into Philosophy by Émile Faquet, Home Seton Charles Montagu Gordon (1914)
"The Eclectics: Plutarch.—The Eclectics, who did not form a school, which would
have been difficult in the spirit in which they acted, had only this in ..."
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