propaedeutic
IPA: proʊpˈidˈutɪk
noun
- An introductory course of instruction.
adjective
- (formal, of education) Preparatory or introductory.
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Examples of "propaedeutic" in Sentences
- A deliberation is a weighing-up, as a propaedeutic to action.
- There is nothing better than mathematics as propaedeutic for literary criticism.
- Descartes 'famous rules are per - haps best described as propaedeutic, or even as prophylactic, injunctions.
- I suggest not only because it has become a living language, but because it has great propaedeutic values as well.
- Four schools in Britain have introduced this neutral international language, in order to test its propaedeutic values.
- In fact, by adopting this starting point in Sehdinge, Hering would have recognized the methodological primacy of phenomenology over the other sciences and its propaedeutic status in the study of the essential properties or attributes (space, intensity, brightness, etc.) of sense phenomena.
- From Magical to Analogical Thinking: The System of Corrospondences Though Shankara's path of jnana yoga ultimately rejects the idea that the self has dimensions or a location, it does recognize the propaedeutic and metaphoric role such conceptions play within the Vedanta system of meditation-devotion upasana.
- Now, it is conceivable that Hume encountered these texts, and recognized their propaedeutic value, only after completing his Treatise; but this bare possibility (the letter was written two years before its publication) is absolutely ruled out in the case of Bayle, if not of the other texts Hume names, by Hume's so-called early memoranda and especially by the use
- The philosophy of pure reason is either propaedeutic, that is, an inquiry into the powers of reason in regard to pure a priori cognition, and is termed critical philosophy; or it is, secondly, the system of pure reason -- a science containing the systematic presentation of the whole body of philosophical knowledge, true as well as illusory, given by pure reason -- and is called metaphysic.
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