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scholastics

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scholastics has definition Adherents to the philosophy and cosmology of Aristotle. Their dominance in the universities, which had been founded largely to study Aristotle, constituted an obstacle to acceptance of the Copernican system advocated by Kepler and Galileo. has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:34:04.0
is a kind of outdated belief

scholastics	has definition Adherents to the philosophy and cosmology of Aristotle. Their dominance in the universities, which had been founded largely to study Aristotle, constituted an obstacle to acceptance of the Copernican system advocated by Kepler and Galileo.
scholastics	is a kind of outdated belief