thesefourchildren has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 7 lists, listed 274 words, written 4 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 15 words.
thesefourchildren has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 7 lists, listed 274 words, written 4 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 15 words.
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thesefourchildren commented on the word invidious
Bacon and Descartes' identification of logic with dialectic seems to have an intentionally invidious significance." - Great Ideas, p.798
July 24, 2012
thesefourchildren commented on the word speculative
"For this reason, in the medieval period, logic comes to be called a "speculative art" or, with grammar and rhetoric, a liberal art." - Great Ideas I, p.800
July 24, 2012
thesefourchildren commented on the word speculative
"For this reason, in the medieval period, logic comes to be called a "speculative art" or, with grammar and rhetoric, a liberal art." - Great Ideas I, p.800
July 24, 2012
thesefourchildren commented on the word ulterior
"In other words, the theoretical, or speculative, sciences differ from the practical sciences in that they are knowledge for its own sake as opposed to knowledge for an ulterior end." - Great Ideas I, p.800
July 24, 2012