1. of or relating to the tradition of formal logic founded by Aristotle and developed especially by the Scholastic philosophers of the Middle Ages (see Scholasticism). The term Aristotelian is often used to distinguish this tradition of logic from that of modern symbolic logic.

2. of or relating to Aristotle, his works, or his thought. In this more general sense, an Aristotelian approach, which gives primacy to particulars over universals and grants a higher value to empirical knowledge, is often contrasted with the approach of Platonic idealism or Neoplatonism. —Aristotelianism n.