Indeed, I ſometimes incline to hope that infidelity is arrived at its higheſt pitch, and that ſcioliſm may advance into found knowledge and ſaving faith […].
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Sciolism
//ˈsaɪ.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m//
Synonyms for "sciolism" (5 found)
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Greek
1 entries- ημιμάθεια noun (practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or has little real understanding of; shallow or superficial knowledge; an instance of this)
Mon
1 entries- ပညာသိပ္ပံ noun (practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or has little real understanding of; shallow or superficial knowledge; an instance of this)
Russian
1 entries- верхоглядство noun (practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or has little real understanding of; shallow or superficial knowledge; an instance of this)
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Here are painted, the miſchiefs of the multiplication of political Scioliſts, and the progreſs of political Scioliſm; the decay of profound knowledge, the perverſion of what we retain, and the decline of religion.
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[T]he crude paralogiſms of a vitiated metaphyſics, ſetting themſelves in oppoſition to the very poſtulates of all geometry, the truth of which we recognize by intuition, may pretend, that motion is a principle foreign to the nature of the ſubject; we are not to rank theſe ſcioliſms among the things which the rigour of the most exact reaſoning requires.
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The contempt […] is not accidental, nor yet altogether owing to that epidemic of a proud ignorance occasioned by a diffused sciolism, which gave a sickly and hectic shewiness to the latter half of the last century.
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