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Definition of Fideist
1. a believer in fideism [n -S] - See also: fideism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fideist
Literary usage of Fideist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of French Literature by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1912)
"is the attitude of the fideist, allied to Bergson and connected with Poincare,
though not identified with either. This is the feeling that science is ..."
2. The Theater of Man: J.L. Vives on Society by José A Fernández-Santamaría (1998)
"Socrates is often claimed as their own by skeptic and fideist alike, while
Aristotle remains of course the patron saint of the stalwart seekers after wisdom ..."
3. A History of French Literature by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1912)
"is the attitude of the fideist, allied to Bergson and connected with Poincare,
though not identified with either. This is the feeling that science is ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In it Huet is a pure fideist. For him, as for Pascal, reason and sense are
incapable of bringing us to truth with certainty; that can be done only by faith. ..."
5. Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1880)
"On leaving Cambridge he became an independent minister of the most pronounced
views, but of most reverent spirit; a " fideist" or faith man, ..."
6. The Religion of the Primitives by Alexandre Le Roy (1922)
"Furthermore, the traditionalist and fideist school, which restricted the power
of human reason in the conquest of truth and ended by placing certitude ..."
7. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"... 163) that there is much that is useful and true and undeniable in what has
been written by supporters of those fideist and traditionalist theories. ..."
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