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This author’s contributions to the philosophy of language include his Syn·categoreumata (“SIN-cat-uh-go-rew-MAH-tuh”), which analyzes words that have no definitive meaning in isolation. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who is frequently speculated to be Pope John XXI. He wrote a logic textbook originally known as his Tractatus, but more commonly called the Summulae Logicales.
ANSWER: Peter of Spain [or Peter of Hispania; accept Petrus Hispanus; accept Pedro Hispano; prompt on Peter or Petrus or Pedro]
[10e] 13th-century students who learned logic from Peter of Spain’s Summulae Logicales frequently learned rhetoric from the works of this Roman orator, including his De Officiis and his Philippics.
ANSWER: Cicero [or Marcus Tullius Cicero; accept Tully]
[10m] Students used this compendium as a theology textbook, after Alexander of Hales rearranged it for that purpose. This circa 1158 work adopts Peter Abelard’s method of presenting conflicting citations without resolving them.
ANSWER: Four Books of Sentences [or Libri Quattor Sententiarum; or Sententiae] (by Peter Lombard)
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