From Universals to Topics: The Realism of Rudolph Agricola, with an Edition of his Reply to a Critic.
Abstract Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica has rightly been regarded as the most original and influential textbook on argumentation, reading, writing, and communication in the Renaissance. At the heart of his treatment are the topics (loci), such as definition, genus, species, place, whole...
| Publicado en: | Vivarium Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 190 - 225 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2012
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