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peripatetics

Noun

Meaning

peripatetics

plural of peripatetic

peripatetics (uncountable)

Instruction by means of lectures.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Based on this research, he wrote some Dialogues against the Peripatetics and Galenists (those who followed the precepts of Galen), which were destroyed when his house burned down. Source: Internet

Galen's education had exposed him to the four major schools of thought (Platonists, Peripatetics, Stoics, Epicureans), with teachers from the Rationalist sect and from the Empiricist sect. Source: Internet

Galen also rejected Stoic propositional logic and instead embraced a hypothetical syllogistic which was strongly influenced by the Peripatetics and based on elements of Aristotelian logic. Source: Internet

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