scholasticisms

Updated: July 2, 2026

All the different scholasticisms make me doubtful of what they profess to demonstrate, because, instead of examining, they affirm from the beginning. Their object is to throw up entrenchments around a prejudice, and not to discover the truth. They accumulate that which darkens rather than that which enlightens.

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Amiel's Journal

It is not too much to say that if the rough methods of Hobbes with a terminology far less fallacious, were employed with this jargon, it would look much poorer than Bramhall's scholasticisms look in the hands of the redoubtable Nominalist.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)