(a.) Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.).
(n.) A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its place it offers an Aristotelian conception of ethics in which sensitivity and feeling are important components of practical reason.
(2) A psychological science of efficient causes, using internal mechanisms to explain overt behavior, is distinguished from another psychological science, based on Aristotelian final causes, using external objects and goals to explain overt behavior.
(3) But Hare, in both The Absence of War and Racing Demon, goes back to basic Aristotelian tragic principles by showing us a good man destroyed by a mixture of personal and societal failings.
(4) In her essay, Mill criticizes Iglesias's Aristotelian analysis as being too static and abstract to use in an ontological assessment of human structure and development from fertilization to birth.
(5) Instead of the traditional Aristotelian craving for generality issuing in the notion of an essence, we suggest the use of the more modern Wittgensteinian concept of a family resemblance: There may be no common core but a set of family resemblances among the different kinds of caring activities.
(6) After the treatment of the teratological theories in greek medicine and aristotelian natural philosophy the question of the origin of human malformation is examined in Pliny's "Historia naturalis" and Augustine's "De civitate dei".
(7) Philosophically, Aristotelian rationalism was challenged by Bacon's scientific empiricism, and C. Bernard's scientific determinism by today's indeterminism.
(8) Patients with orofacial pain dysfunction syndrome cannot be treated in a satisfactory manner by looking at them with a monocausal, linear analytical point of view in the sense of aristotelian logic.
(9) It goes without saying, that this article contains a good deal of philosophical arguments including, of course, an introduction to some basic Aristotelian notions, fundamental distinctions in the theory of definition, and finally the Wittgensteinian concept of family resemblance.
(10) In his three main works, the Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed, he developed a far-reaching ethical system which is Aristotelian and yet is also greatly dependent upon the Rabbinic tradition.
(11) The retroactive analysis of the documents from every case that was treated at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic of the Aristotelian University from 1970 to 1975, as well as the comparative statistical study, show common characteristics shared by all 90 cases under consideration.
(12) In an article in an earlier edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics (1) Dr Iglesias bases her analysis upon the mediaeval interpretation of Platonic metaphysics and Aristotelian logic as given by Aquinas.
(13) The nosological concept of the DCR can be characterized by thirteen paradigms: (1) a nonkraepelinian clinical classificatory system given by Leonhard; (2) the index-psychosis paradigm as opposed to the end-state paradigm; (3) conceptual differentiation of the disease entities as opposed both to the full disease entity paradigm and to the only-one-psychosis (or no disease entity) paradigm, respectively; (4) an aristotelian distinction between content (meaning) and form as opposed to the paradigm of ideas; (5) three-aspect approach to the psychopathological phenomena instead of choosing only one or two of the aspects of experience, of the behavior and of the achievement as special paradigm; (6) gestalt paradigm specified in different ways, as completing the associationist paradigm; (7) structural paradigm, especially concerning the delusions; (8) method of understanding in contrast to the method of causal explanation in distinguishing reactive (i.e.
(14) He suggests that Pellegrino stands in three consequentialist or teleological moral traditions: professional physician ethics, Aristotelianism, and Catholic moral theology, but that there are the makings of a more independent, more egalitarian theory of justice in his writings.
(15) This is displayed on a grander scale: White manages to compress several centuries of British history into his work, and Wart sees it all, remaining sympathetic, valorous and humanly flawed till his final, tragic (in the Aristotelian sense, as White himself would have it) end.
(16) It is here argued that such schemes are based on the Aristotelian concept of "essences" and raise the same difficulties as have arisen with the essentialist approach to animal taxonomy.
(17) In the experience of authentic tragedy there is some element of voluntary surrender, of suspension of disbelief with full consent of will, as in the Aristotelian concept of catharsis.
(18) Appropriately enough, visitors to northern Greece can now do their own, more strenuous, Aristotelian walk, on a magnificent trail near the town of Stagira, where the philosopher was born in 384BC ("the Stagirite" was his nickname in the Renaissance and later).
(19) The quality of life (QoL) of 10 home hemodialysis (HHD) patients was studied using the Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical theory of the good life.
(20) To apply Aristotelian logical concepts to it is to distort the real nature of the datum.
Organon
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Organum
Example Sentences:
(1) The committee found the most frequent offenders to be Organon (32 breaches), Smith Kline and French (23), Glaxo (21), A H Robins (18), Bayer (17), Merck Sharp and Dohme (17), and Lederle (16).
(2) In the presence of atropine sulfate, the benzodiazepines (diazepam, midazolam, clonazepam, loprazolam and alprazolam), mecamylamine, flunarizine, diphenylhydantoin, clonidine, CGS 19755 and Organon 6370 studied were effective.
(3) The antagonist, Organon 30276, was administered continuously from days 14 through 21, and the agonist, Zoladex, was injected as long-acting pellets on day 14 after conception to pregnant baboons.
(4) Kits with antibodies to beta-subunit C-terminal segment (Organon NML and others) failed to recognize hCG missing this segment, a component of serum hCG in trophoblast disease.
(5) The greater sensitivity for HD Ag detection is obtained with Organon assay.
(6) We analyzed some disorders associated with hyperfibrinolytic states using ELISA for FbDP, FgDP and total fibrin (ogen) degradation products (TDP) (ORGANON TEKNIKA).
(7) We have compared the Karpas AIDS Cell Test for antibodies to the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) with a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Organon Teknika) by testing serum samples from 324 intravenous drug abusers in Turin.
(8) In no instance were HDAg and anti-HD present simultaneously when tested with the Organon assays.
(9) The authors administered to six transsexual women at three-month intervals androgenic depot preparations: testosterone undecanoate (Andriol-Organon) by the oral route and testosterone isobutyrate (Agovirin depot-Spofa) in injections.
(10) A comparison of the plasma levels of tetracycline obtained whilst taking standard therapeutic doses of Tetrabid-Organon was made in twelve healthy volunteers.
(11) The commercial hepatitis B enzyme immunoassay kits of Abbott Laboratories and Organon Teknika were compared for their sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility in detecting the hepatitis B seromarkers hepatitis B surface and e antigens and antibodies to hepatitis B core, e, and surface antigens.
(12) High-affinity, high-density AII receptors were present in the organon subfornicalis, organon vasculosum laminae terminalis and nuclei triangularis septalis, suprachiasmatis, and paraventricularis of the rat and in rat adrenal capsule-zona glomerulosa area, adrenal medulla, and anterior pituitary.
(13) Out of the 4 initial serum specimens tested, all were positive by PA, 2 by SUDS, Wellcome and Pasteur, 1 by SeroCard and DB, and none by Organon.
(14) We report on our experience with the induction of labour using 0.5 mg of prostaglandin E2 gel (Cerviprost, Organon) intracervically.
(15) The Organon viral lysate and the DuPont recombinant ELISAs exhibited the best overall performance (test efficiency = 98.9%).
(16) In seven cases, HDAg was detected with the Organon assay but not with Deltassay.
(17) All samples from these patients taken beyond week 4 of illness were found anti-HD positive with both the Organon and Abbott anti-HD assays.
(18) According to the protocol developed, all sera are screened initially both by indirect ELISA (Organon) and using a rapid and economical modification of the Serodia particle agglutination test.
(19) Five commercially available assays for hepatitis delta (HD) virus markers were compared for sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility: three assays for antibody (anti-HD), provided by Diagnostics Pasteur, Organon Teknika, and Abbott Laboratories, and two assays for antigen (HD Ag), from Pasteur and Organon Teknika.
(20) Investigated comparatively with immunodiffusion, electroimmunodiffusion, complement fixation and Latex agglutination, passive hemagglutination with the Hepanosticon--Organon reagent proved to be an easy, rapid, highly reproducible method for HBsAg detection.