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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

φιλοσόφημα

, from

φιλοσοφεῖν

to love knowledge.]

A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle of reasoning.

[R.]

This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian myths, is a

philosopheme

Coleridge.

Noun.

[Gr.] Principle of reasoning; a theorem.

[Little used.]

philosopheme ‎(plural philosophemes)

(philosophy) A philosophical statement, theorem or axiom.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prometheus of Aeschylus:
  This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian mythi, is a philosopheme.
- *, 1991, “Kevin Mulligan”, in How Not to Read: Derrida on Husserl^[Topoi], volume 10, number 2, DOI:10.1007/BF00141340:
  Heidegger makes of distortions of bits of ordinary German — particularly nominalisations of prepositions — and his extensive use of a large number of the obscurer philosophemes (big words) of the tradition.

philosopheme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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