School of Law


noun
  1. (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.

  • Also called Ch'eng-Chu school, Cheng-Zhu school [cheng-joo] /ˈtʃɛŋˈdʒu/ .
  • Chinese Li Hsüeh [lee-shye], /ˈli ˈʃüɛ/, (Pinyin) Li Xue [lee-shwœ] /ˈli ˈʃwœ/ .

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