Skverelyje (1979), Milda Drazdauskaitė

Milda Drazdauskaite, via Lietuvos muzieju kolekcijos

We know these things to be mere trifles

The Spectator; with Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes. 

In Four Volumes. Vol. II. 

London; Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 

Farrington Street; 

and 56, Walker Street, New York. 

1860.

Waar mijn oog op viel: 

No. 239. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1711. (pag. 267) 

The universities of Europe, for many years, carried on their debates by syllogism, insomuch that we see the knowledge of several centuries laid out into objections and answers, and all the good sense of the age cut and minced into almost an infinitude of distinctions. 

When our universities found there was no end of wrangling this way, they invented a kind of argument, which is not reducible to any mood or figure in Aristotle. It was called the Argumentum Basilinum (others write it Bacilinum or Baculinum), which is pretty well expressed in our English word club‑law. When they were not able to refute their antagonist, they knocked him down.

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