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1909 Nov 4
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Significs & LOGIC
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learning. The universities were in church hands, and approved
the new learning. The Greeks Constantinopolitans and their disciples knew nothing of
logic or metaphysics, but finding the obscurantists of the
universities were Dunces, - that is, followers of Duns, men whose subtile reasonings they
were utterly unable to cope with, -- they naturally struck hands with the
only enemy adversaries of the great Duns analyst who dared to enter the lists of
controversy with his disciples; and these were the Nominalists. They
the promoters of the revival accordingly adopted the Nominalist opinion, -- in words:
for they never gave thought enough to the subject to know
what is was to which they were assenting; Having and having given their
assent, they dropped the whole distasteful subject; for to these
mere enjoyers of literature, severe reasoning, especially upon
abstract subjects, was a pain that they lacked the fortitude to