Texts in Context: The Queen of the Sciences
“What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?” — Peter Abelard
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Rhetorica: The Little Trinity
Three mental virtues come before all others. Without them, no further thought is possible.
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Rhetorica: A Complement to Dialectica
Rhetoric is the crown of the Trivium, and this is not an accident: “these three are one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal …”
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Dialectica: An Index of Logic (and Fallacies)
Not everyone gets a classical education, replete with grammar, logic, and rhetoric; but when pursuing wisdom, it is never too late to begin.
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: Conjunction Junction
The necessary-and-sufficient conditional and the disjunctive lie before us; and then … well, we can burn that bridge when we come to it.
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: Enough Necessity
Sufficiency and necessity are twins, but not identical twins—though their younger sibling does mysteriously resemble both.
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: Matters Syllogistical
Today, we conclude our review of Aristotelian logic and make ready to embark on Stoic logic, the last missing piece of the puzzle.
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: Using the Square of Opposition
Logic can make us think of the angels—like angels, logicians must frequently beginning by saying “Fear not.”
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: How to Talk About Things—Part Three
One of the most common causes of distrust and even enmity among people is mere miscommunication.
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Texts in Context: From Antiquity to the Mediævum
We have come now to, perhaps, the most libeled and distorted period in all of human history. Let’s clear a few things up before we properly begin!
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