Definition of Obscurantist. Meaning of Obscurantist. Synonyms of Obscurantist

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Definition of Obscurantist

Obscurantist
Obscurantist Ob*scur"ant*ist, n. Same as Obscurant. --Ed. Rev.

Meaning of Obscurantist from wikipedia

- vagueness. In the 18th century, Enlightenment philosophers applied the term obscurantist to any enemy of intellectual enlightenment and the liberal diffusion...
- advocate of the Jews being Johann Reuchlin, who was opposed by the obscurantists; and this controversy, which was carried on for the most part by means...
- film studies scholar Reynold Humphries dismisses the franchise as "obscurantist nonsense whose only 'idea' is that death is an agency that has a 'plan'...
- letter he wrote in that campaign was criticized for using "medieval" and "obscurantist" language. A church source quoted in the Argentine newspaper La Nación...
- Ammonius Hermiae writes that Aristotle's writing style is deliberately obscurantist so that "good people may for that reason stretch their mind even more...
- Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Bertrand Russell considered Heidegger an obscurantist, writing, "Highly eccentric in its terminology, his philosophy is extremely...
- non-contradiction; the first genuine philosopher and an anti-intellectual obscurantist". The hallmarks of Hera****us's philosophy are the unity of opposites...
- Abdul Jalil Faridi: A Lost Chapter in the History of the Ruthless, Obscurantist Urdu Politics of North India | Ather Farouqui". www.newageislam.com....
- by race, religion or other social group. No promotion of sectarian, obscurantist, anti-scientific and anti-national attitudes. Relations with foreign...
- Tukhachevsky, a proponent of armoured blitzkrieg. Stalin promoted some obscurantists like Grigory Kulik who opposed the mechanisation of the army and the...