eclecticismn.
/ɛˈklɛktɪsɪz(ə)m/ a. The eclectic philosophy; the eclectic method applied to speculation or practice.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > knowledge, study, or subject > branches or methods
practica1393
syncretism1618
eclecticism1798
syncreticism1860
eclectism1867
metaphilosophy1941
1798 A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. 1 There arose a sort of Eclecticism, which discouraged party-spirit, and recommended philosophical discretion.
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iv. 124 Abstracted selfishness..in its modern guise of philosophic eclecticism.
1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Lit. Societies 17 The French Eclecticism, which Cousin esteems so conclusive.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. vi. 107 Eclecticism,—conciliation,—union were..the grand aim of the Alexandrian school.
1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. iii. 246 The eclecticism of the Syrian revisers.
b. concrete. The product of an eclectic method.
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1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 1st Ser. xii. 278 What is a man but a finer..landscape than the horizon figures,—nature's eclecticism?
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