Word Finder - academics

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(usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.

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A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.

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A member of the Academy; an academician.

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A student in a college.

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Academic dress; academicals.

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Academic studies.

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Academia.

If you excel in academics, the arts or athletics, ask about performance-based scholarships as well.

He issued two editions of his Academics.

He returns to the subject in Stieber's Opuscula academics (1834).

Indeed, according to Ammonius, Plato too had talked as he walked in the Academy; and all his followers were called Peripatetics, until, while the pupils of Xenocrates took the name " Academics," those of Aristotle retained the general name.

It has been designed to assist academics to design and deliver coursework to allow for the divergent needs of student populations.

But the attitude maintained by the Academics was chiefly that of a negative criticism of the views of others, in particular of the somewhat crude and imperious dogmatism of the Stoics.

It is to be observed, however, firstly, that the scientific element occupied a larger place in Plato's later system than is generally supposed,' and, secondly, that other Academics who came into competition with Speusippus agreed with him in his rejection of the theory of ideas.

In order to continue this tradition and to deliver this aim we are dedicated to working with leading academics.

The Conference will bring top academics, business entrepreneurs and policy makers from around the world to Southampton.

In the meantime the Patriotic Society had divided into a White or Moderate party and a Red or Extreme party, which was subdivided into the Academics or Republicans and the Military or Terrorists.

But this criterion was open to the persistent attacks of Epicureans and Academics, who made clear (t) that reason is dependent upon, if not derived from, sense, and (2) that the utterances of reason lack consistency.

The alterations, however, in the metaphysical position of the Academics had little effect on their ethical teach ing, as, even during the period of Scepticism, they appear to have presented as probable the same general view of human good which Antiochus afterwards dogmatically announced as a revival of the common doctrine of Plato and Aristotle.

Many academics appeared complacent about the ongoing bombing of Afghanistan, while others viewed it with cheerful approval.

Most whistleblowers were senior academics, chiefly professors and associate professors, and they made about half of the allegations.

Many of its internationally renowned academics and researchers are leading experts in their field of study.

And was attended by some 200 people, including fellow academics, and local teachers.

Tweed also became the "uniform" of academics.

It has attracted well over £ 500,000 of external support so far, and visiting academics from many countries.

Students will be supervised by experienced academics from the School and will have a partnership with the host organization throughout the year.

Airy fairies who spend their entire lives at the bottom of the garden may fear to visit the house; legal academics should not.

Together with research and clinical practice, teaching is a core responsibility for medical academics.

However, academics are concerned that the data are not yet sufficiently accurate to make value-added comparisons.

Leading academics and broadcasters answered these questions at a one day colloquium held at Queen Mary, University of London on 29 June 2006.

It has been designed to assist academics to designed to assist academics to design and deliver coursework to allow for the divergent needs of student populations.

It brought together eminent journalists, academics and lawyers in this field.

Now in its sixth year, the seminar is a lively forum in which graduates and established academics discuss fresh perspectives on turn-of-the-century culture.

Here are pedlars of Nostradamus, and writers of newspaper horoscopes, and academics preaching the End of History... Hmm.

This brings together senior industrialists, employers and academics to discuss issues of common interest and concern to the region.

Or even where Academics agree on the facts, they may believe the facts support radically differing interpretations.

Indeed, when academics become so litigious, this raises serious questions about the freedom of academic debate.

Contributions have been provided by academics, practicing physicians, health care managers, and allied professionals.

There are fears among academics that the economic constraints faced by employers reduces the scope for substantial expansion of the one-year placement.

It has over 200 members, including media commentators, leading opinion pollsters and national party officials as well as academics.

In recent years academics, politicians and the media seem to have become increasingly preoccupied with the Holocaust.

The debate centers on the view of some academics that cannabis use causes psychosis among black people.

Debates about citizenship and education are not the sole purview of academics.

We also sponsor the British Council's Post Doctoral research Program which gives Saudi academics grants to conduct research in British universities.

Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching sociolinguistics, or language and education.

It seems also true that the Academics were less overborne than the Pyrrhonists by the practical issue of their doubts (imperturbability); their interest was more purely intellectual, and they had something of the old delight in mental exercitation for its own sake (see Arcesilaus, Carneades, Aenesidemus, Agrippa and Sextus Empiricus).

Of more or less isolated thinkers may be mentioned Francois de la Mothe le Vayer (1588-1672), whose Cinq Dialogues appeared after his death under the pseudonym of Orosius Tubero; Samuel Sorbiere (1615-1670), who translated the Hypotyposes Pyrrhoneae of Sextus Empiricus; Simon Foucher (1644-1696), canon of Dijon, who wrote a History of the Academics, and combated Descartes and Malebranche from a sceptical standpoint.

Referent power accrues also, because she could suggest ways for other academics to emulate her success.

Many academics are accused of merely regurgitating the same old information in a new language.

We also sponsor the British Council 's Post Doctoral Research Program which gives Saudi academics grants to conduct research in British universities.

The texts to be analyzed are research articles by academics working in the field of dialect didactics, and school curricula.

In the single-minded pursuit of their subjects, some academics become detached from the ordinary things of life.

A spokeswoman for Universities UK said that the survey represented only a small sample of academics.

Her vigilant attitude towards her academics is inspiring and will serve her well in the future.

The area also boasts many renowned universities - UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and NC State - bringing students and academics from all over the world to the city.

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Note that these databases aren't just for academics.