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non-Aristotelian

non-Aristotelian adjective: not unduly beholden to Aristotelian tendencies of thought (Aristotelianism), although respectful of them and aiming to extend beyond them (to stand on the shoulders of giants).

Adjective

non-Aristotelian (not comparable)

  1. (general) Not unduly beholden to Aristotelian tendencies of thought (Aristotelianism), although respectful of them and aiming to extend beyond them (to stand on the shoulders of giants).
    • Again, it is necessary to stress that non-aristotelian does not mean anti-aristotelian, just as non-newtonian physics is not anti-newtonian physics. […] Given these revolutions in science and mathematics, Korzybski reasoned that it was long past time for a revolution in reason itself, time for a...2023, Lance Strate, “Preface to the Sixth Edition, 2023”, in Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, 6th edition, Institute of General...
    Antonyms:
    Aristotelian
  2. Whose dramaturgical structure departs from the features of classical tragedy in favour of the features of the epic.
    Antonyms:
    Aristotelian

Antonyms of non-Aristotelian

Forms of non-Aristotelian

alternative formnonaristotelian

Origin of non-Aristotelian

From non- + Aristotelian; the general semantics sense was coined by Alfred Korzybski in the 1920s or early 1930s; the dramaturgical sense was coined circa 1930 by Bertolt Brecht.

Questions about non-Aristotelian

What does non-Aristotelian mean?
Non-Aristotelian means not unduly beholden to Aristotelian tendencies of thought (Aristotelianism), although respectful of them and aiming to extend beyond them (to stand on the shoulders of giants).
What part of speech is non-Aristotelian?
Non-Aristotelian is an adjective.

Words near non-Aristotelian in the dictionary

  1. non-Arabs
  2. non-Archimedean
  3. non-Archimedean time
  4. non-Archimedean times
  5. non-argument
  6. non-Aristotelian
  7. non-aromatic
  8. non-arrival
  9. non-arrivals
  10. non-articulated
  11. non-associative

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