Scholarly, logical, theoretical, and practical

Alan O.
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  1. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  2. instructive
    serving to enlighten or inform
  3. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  4. academic
    associated with an educational institution
  5. theoretical
    concerned with hypotheses and not practical considerations
  6. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  7. heuristic
    a commonsense rule to help solve some problem
  8. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  9. hypothetical
    a conjectural possibility or circumstance
  10. a priori
    reasoned from a general principle to a necessary effect
  11. a posteriori
    involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes
  12. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  13. speculative
    not based on fact or investigation
  14. deductive
    relating to reasoning from the general to the particular
    general to special, cf. inductive
  15. analytical
    using or skilled in using reasoning
  16. synthetical
    involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis
  17. inductive
    influencing or causing to arise
    special to general, cf. deductive
  18. inferential
    relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
  19. premise
    a statement that is held to be true
  20. posit
    take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
  21. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
    Two meanings: 1. a treatise; 2. unproven statement.
  22. postulate
    maintain or assert
  23. illation
    the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
  24. donnish
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
  25. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  26. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  27. treatise
    a formal text that treats a particular topic systematically
  28. dissertation
    a treatise advancing a point of view resulting from research
  29. monograph
    a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject
  30. discourse
    an extended communication dealing with some particular topic
  31. proposition
    a suggestion offered for acceptance or rejection
  32. argument
    a methodical process of logical reasoning
  33. ad hoc
    for or concerned with one specific purpose
  34. putative
    purported
Created on Thu May 31 19:50:52 EDT 2012 (updated Sat Jun 09 20:47:23 EDT 2012)

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