Philosophism, French, a philosophy such as the philosophers of France gave instances of, founded on the notion and cultivated in the belief that scientific knowledge is the sovereign remedy for the ills of life, summed up in two articles—first, that “a lie cannot be believed”; and second, that “in spiritual supersensual matters no belief is possible,” her boast being that “she had destroyed religion by extinguishing the abomination” (l'Infame).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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