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Socrates (Debra Nails) sophismata [= sophisms] (Fabienne Pironet and Joke Spruyt)
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The discussion of sophisms occurs in three different settings in the medieval literature: first, sophisms which are discussed in works on different topics where the sophism raises certain questions germaine to that topic; second, works by a single author which examine a series of sophisms (e.g. the sophismata of Albert of Saxony or John Buridan), and third, collections of sophisms discussed by diverse authors (Read, 1993).
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Although it has usually been supposed that medieval interest in sophismata and insolubilia came from medieval scholars 'exposure to ancient sources, like Arisotle's
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The influential view of William Heytesbury was that insolubles should be resolved in the context of an obligatio, a specialized form of disputation, and Heytesbury proposes rules for solving insolubilia as well as sophismata in this way (Spade, 1982, 252).
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Distinctiones et sophismata parisiens du XIIIe siècle.
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Sigerus de Cortraco, ˜Summa modorum significandi sophismata™; New Edition, on the Basis of G. Wallerand's editio prima, with Additions, Critical Notes, an Index of Terms and an Introduction.
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The first and most evident role of sophismata is pedagogical.
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(Note also that Pinborg here uses the word ˜sophismata™ to signify not only sophisma-sentences but the whole literature that discussed them as well.)
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Most of the logical and grammatical texts on sophismata have been edited by S. Ebbesen and his collaborators in the review
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Similarly, in solving sophismata, sometimes Latin word-order is used as an arbitrary code for interpreting the sentence.
fbharjo commented on the word sophismata
'crumbs of knowledge'
July 17, 2011