Antischolastic

/ˌæntiːskəˈlæstɪk/ adjective

Opposed to scholasticism, the medieval philosophical approach of reasoning based on religious texts and formal logic.

From anti- (against) + scholastic (from Latin scholasticus, relating to schools, from schola meaning 'school'). Scholasticism was the dominant philosophy of medieval universities, and antischolastic emerged as a reaction against its rigid methods during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.

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