Academism

See also: academism

English

Etymology

academy +‎ -ism

Noun

Academism (uncountable)

1. (obsolete): The philosophy advocated by the Platonic Academy; Platonism, skepticism.
   • 1733, Andrew Baxter, An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul. VOL. II, A. Millar (1745), page 254:

     […] since this is the great principle of Academism and Scepticism, That Truth cannot be perceived, […]