单词 | philonian |
释义 | Philonianadj.1 Of or relating to the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo Judaeus (c20 b.c.–c50 a.d.); = Philonic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of Neoplatonism > of or relating to Philo Philonic1812 Philonian1845 1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. 827/2 It has been assumed that whatever is Philonian is therefore Alexandrian. 1854 J. Murdock tr. J. L. von Mosheim Hist. Comm. State of Christianity II. 378 Its entire force and signification, however, is not to be comprehended except by the initiated in the mysteries of the Philonian philosophy. 1892 E. P. Barrow Regni Evangelium 51 Hebraic, Philonian or Gnostic teaching. 1954 Renaissance News 7 58 Editor of important sources of classical literature, legal history, and theology, among them genuine Philonian works. 1993 A. Flew Atheistic Humanism ii. 50 This hypothesized cause remains substantially the same as the Philonian God without qualities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Philonianadj.2 Logic. Of or relating to the ancient Greek logician Philo the Dialectician; spec. designating or relating to his view of conditional propositions, in which he was the first to posit the relationship of material implication (cf. material implication n. at material adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1). ΚΠ 1896 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1933) III. 279 Ancient writers mention a great dispute between two logicians, Diodorus and Philo, in regard to the significance of conditional propositions. This dispute has continued to our own day... The Philonian view has been preferred by the greatest logicians. 1949 Philos. Rev. 58 239 Corresponding to each Diodorean conditional, there are an infinite number of Philonian conditionals, one for each moment of time. 1961 I. Thomas tr. I. M. Bocheński Hist. Formal Logic 311 Frege then introduces the Philonian concept of implication, though, unlike Peirce, he knows nothing in this connection of Philo. 2004 W. R. Ott Locke's Philos. Lang. i. 16 It is tempting to render anaskeue as contraposition, but this would be inadequate, as even a Philonian material conditional, if true, would live up to it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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