English

Alternative forms

• Stagyrite

Noun

Stagirite ‎(plural Stagirites)

1. Someone from Stagira.

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Proper noun

Stagirite

1. Aristotle.
   • 2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics” in The Review of Metaphysics LIII, № 4, § ii, page 812:

     It was thus a sound insight into the thought framework of the great Stagirite that led the anti-Aristotelian writers of the Renaissance, and later preeminently Descartes and Spinoza, to attack the Platonic/Aristotelian conception of the embodiment of value in nature and the modern logical positivist opponents of metaphysics to attach the stigma of illegitimacy to all evaluative disciplines.

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Italian

Noun

stagirite f

1. plural of stagirita