The Metalogicon of John Salisbury 1st Edition

The Metalogicon of John Salisbury 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780520345935,0520345932

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• ISBN 10: 0520345932
• ISBN 13: 9780520345935
• Author: Daniel D. McGarry

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Table of contents:

1. CHAPTER 1. The false accusation that has evoked this rejoinder to Cornificius.
2. CHAPTER 2. A description of Cornificius, without giving his name.
3. CHAPTER 3. When, how, and by whom Cornificius was educated.
4. CHAPTER 4. The lot of his companions in error.
5. CHAPTER 5. What great men that tribe dares defame, and why they do this.
6. CHAPTER 6. The arguments on which Cornificius bases his contention.
7. CHAPTER 7. Praise of Eloquence.
8. CHAPTER 8. The necessity of helping nature by use and exercise.
9. CHAPTER 9. That one who attacks logic is trying to rob mankind of eloquence.228
10. CHAPTER 10. What “logic” means, and how we should endeavor to acquire all arts that are not reprobate.
11. CHAPTER 11. The nature of art, the various kinds of innate abilities, and the fact that natural talents should be cultivated and developed by the arts.
12. CHAPTER 12. Why some arts are called “liberal.”
13. CHAPTER 13. Whence grammar gets its name.
14. CHAPTER 14. Although it is not natural, grammar imitates nature.
15. CHAPTER 15. That adjectives of secondary application should not be copulated with nouns of primary application,277 as in the example “a patronymic horse!”
16. CHAPTER 16. That adjectives of primary origin are copulated with nouns of primary309 application.
17. CHAPTER 17. That grammar also imitates nature in poetry.
18. CHAPTER 18. What grammar should prescribe, and what it should forbid.
19. CHAPTER 19. That a knowledge of figures [of speech] is most useful.
20. CHAPTER 20. With what the grammarian should concern himself.
21. CHAPTER 21. By what great men grammar has been appreciated, and the fact that ignorance of this art is as much a handicap in philosophy as is deafness and dumbness.
22. CHAPTER 22. That Cornificius invokes the authority of Seneca to defend his erroneous contentions.
23. CHAPTER 23. The chief aids to philosophical inquiry and the practice of virtue; as well as how grammar is the foundation of both philosophy and virtue.
24. CHAPTER 24. Practical observations on reading and lecturing,425 together with [an account of] the method employed by Bernard of Chartres and his followers.
25. CHAPTER 25. A short conclusion concerning the value of grammar.

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