methodism
IPA: mˈɛθʌdɪzʌm
Root Word: Methodism
noun
- The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
- Any of several related movements.
- The practice of adhering (often excessively) to methods.
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Examples of "methodism" in Sentences
- On the methodism-particularism distinction, see Chisholm (1982).
- Harvey's main interests were trade unionism, politics, methodism and cricket.
- The economic methodism, the mosaic interbedding, the architectonic structure of it all, a part and parcel of
- She was accused of 'methodism' and a leaning to Jacobinism, although her views were of the most moderate kind.
- The dialectic of the First Meditation features a confrontation between particularism and methodism, with methodism emerging the victor.
- The panel was filled with great ideas, on everything from virtual methodism in England to the Neodaq, and I hope to have news to those presentations' culminations in paper form soon.
- (By contrast, methodism begins with criteria for knowledge and justification and then attempts to ascertain whether, on these criteria, we actually have any knowledge or justified beliefs.)
- Chisholm himself was a particularist, yet he claimed that he had no argument to offer against methodism or against the view that neither question could be answered without a prior answer to the other.
- Their tormentors knew what they were doing and went about it with a savage methodism, not only stopping short of killing them, but also wounding them in ways that would create enduring, painful reminders.
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