Aristotelianly

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Adverb

1
In an Aristotelian manner.
"Speaking Platonically and normatively, we attribute style to an author or charge him with lacking style; speaking Aristotelianly, we use the term as a description, hold that every author has a style, and turn our attention to analysing the specific character of this author or that."

Example

"Speaking Platonically and normatively, we attribute style to an author or charge him with lacking style; speaking Aristotelianly, we use the term as a description, hold that every author has a style, and turn our attention to analysing the specific character of this author or that."

Etymology

From Aristotelian + -ly.

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