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▪ I. Wolfian, a.1 and n.1|ˈvɒlfɪən, ˈwʊlfɪən|
Also Wolffian.
[f. the name of the German philosopher Christian Wolf or Wolff (1679–1754) + -ian.]
a. adj. Pertaining to the philosophical system of Wolf, which was an eclectic adaptation of Leibnitzianism and scholasticism.
b. n. An adherent of this system. Hence ˈWolfianism, the philosophical system of Wolf; ˈWolfianize v., trans. to render Wolfian.
1791Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. II. 572 Almost every German university was inflamed with disputes on the subject of liberty and necessity; and the names of Wolfians and Anti-Wolfians were every where heard. 1843Eclectic Rev. Feb. 163 The influence of the Wolfian philosophy. Ibid. 164 It is undoubtedly to Wolfianism that we are to trace, in great measure, that coldness and lifelessness which characterizes the sermons of the latter part of the preceding century. Ibid. 165 The already Wolfianized mind of the rising ministry. 1874G. S. Morris tr. Ueberweg's Hist. Philos. II. 116 Lange..sought.. to demonstrate the Spinozistic and atheistic character of the Wolffian doctrine.
So ˈWolfio-Leibˈnitzian a., characterized by a combination of Wolfian and Leibnitzian views.
1877E. Caird Philos. Kant i. 150 The artificial harmonies of the Wolffio-Leibnitzian philosophy.
▪ II. Wolfian, a.2 and n.2|ˈvɒlfɪən, ˈwʊlfɪən|
[f. the name of the German philologist F. A. Wolf (1759–1824) + -ian.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to F. A. Wolf or his theory regarding the Homeric poems (developed in his Prolegomena ad Homerum, 1795).
b. n. One who accepts this theory.
1824De Quincey in London Mag. Jan. 5/1 Was the Iliad the work of one mind, or (on the Wolfian hypothesis) of many? 1875W. D. Geddes in Contemp. Rev. July 234 The Wolfian theory..that the Homeric poems were a congeries of originally independent lays..moulded into a unity in the time of Pisistratus. Ibid. 235 Next to him [sc. G. Hermann] in importance among the later Wolfians..stands Lachmann. |