What's the difference between academicism and scholasticism?

Academicism


Definition:

  • (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
  • (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For expediency, these viewpoints are labeled academicism and experientialism.

Scholasticism


Definition:

  • (n.) The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These texts represented an important transition from the dogma of medieval scholasticism to the precise observations of Vesalius.

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