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Definition of Hylicists
1. hylicist [n] - See also: hylicist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hylicists
Literary usage of Hylicists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief History of Greek Philosophy by Benjamin Chapman Burt (1889)
"... science and speculation, crude and false, though, no doubt, they in large
measure were, took the place of mythology. I. NATURALISM. §'- The hylicists ..."
2. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"... in this reference, Aristotle ranks them with the hylicists or Ionic physicists,
and roundly says of them : ' They held things to be numbers ' (Meta. ..."
3. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Stöckl (1887)
"The Valentinians distinguish three classes of men, the hylicists, ...
The hylicists (heathens) are wholly outside the region of the higher life, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"... traced back to the Ionian hylicists ; "natural selection " introduces» quite
new method of looking at nature, and it has the further advantage of being, ..."
5. An Introduction to the New Testament by Adolf Jülicher (1904)
"4 and 6 sound like a protest against the Gnostic division of mankind into two or
three classes, one of which, that of the slaves of Matter (hylicists), ..."
6. Numenius of Apamea, the Father of Neo-Platonism: Works, Biography, Message by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (1917)
"... we must remember that Greek philosophy began with the materialism of the
hylicists. The Eleatics taught the unity of the incorporeal. ..."
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