According to The Encyclopedia of Religion, “the Scholastic method... throughout the Middle Ages... was structured according to the Aristotelian logic of defining, dividing, and reasoning in its exposition of the text and its resolution of difficulties. ”
परन्तु साथ ही साथ, विद्यालयों ने यूनानी दर्शनशास्त्र, ख़ासकर अरस्तू के लेखों को स्वीकार किया ।