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Although he never explicitly mentioned Christian Scholastic philosophers, a comparison of his opinions and of the particular problems that engaged his attention with the Scholastic writings of his period suggests that he was influenced by the Latins on certain points.
You'd think that a fourteenth-century allegorical poem on sin and redemption, written in a medieval Italian vernacular and in accord with the Scholastic theology of that period, would have been turned over, long ago, to the scholars in the back carrels.
Great importance was given to recreation and physical education; his concern for the health of his students did not come to an end with the scholastic year, for during the summers, when the cities became unhealthy, he would arrange for his students to go to Lake Garda or to the hills outside Verona.
But the U.S. now has collected a core talent base — three of the top ten players in the world — and with the scholastic programs we have and the initiatives happening around the country, led by the one here in St . Louis the United States is fast becoming the best chess country on Earth.
Hobbes attacks various views associated with the Scholastic Aristotelian tradition as resting on that mistake.
Vives' severe censure of scholastic logic derived from his own unhappy experience with the scholastic curriculum at Paris.
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The humanist dialectic of the Renaissance shared many assumptions concerning the dialectical syllogism with the scholastics, but some authors developed a different understanding of dialectic.
On the whole, Valla's probability-related concepts do not seem to differ too starkly from the semantic and proto-frequentist notions of probability (or belief-worthiness) which he shared with the scholastics.
"However much I agree with the Scholastics in this general and, so to speak, metaphysical explanation of the principles of bodies," he wrote to Arnauld in July 1686, "I am as corpuscular as one can be in the explanation of particular phenomena, and it is saying nothing to allege that they have forms or qualities" (Gerhardt 1875, 2 58, trans. Mason 1967).
As he puts it in a comment on his own system of philosophy, "This system appears to unite Plato with Democritus, Aristotle with Descartes, the Scholastics with the moderns, theology and morality with reason.
They honor, with consummate skill, the scholastic discipline of canon and fugue.
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