Wildian
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Etymology 1 edit
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Wildian (comparative more Wildian, superlative most Wildian)
- Of or pertaining to John Daniel Wild (1902–1972), American philosopher, an important proponent of existentialism and phenomenology.
- 1989, James M. Edie, “John Wild and Phenomenology”, in Eugene F. Kaelin, Calvin O. Schrag, editors, American Phenomenology: Origins and Developments (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; 26), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 90:
- Thus the title of his paper at Royaumont has a Husserlian ring, but a peculiarly Wildian intonation: “L'anthropologie philosophique et la crise des sciences européennes.”
Etymology 2 edit
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Wildian (comparative more Wildian, superlative most Wildian)
- Alternative form of Wildean (“of or pertaining to Oscar Wilde”).