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A lot of medieval scholasticism was just taking the LSAT in reverse
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: dashing lodge milk The LSAT does all the writing for you, you just pick the right answer. In medieval dissertations you had to do all the writing, and you had to use LSAT logic to make your points. Your logic had to be tight at each step. It didn't matter what you were writing about, you had to score a 180. There couldn't be any gaps in your reasoning. Even if you were just writing about a medicinal plant from the Dutch Indies, you had to go out of your way to prove your command of formal logic. They did this in the middle east for a long time too. Persians thought you had to show your command of LSAT logic before you could say anything else. Descartes didn't invent nuthin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059531) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: pearly philosopher-king dont like this because extreme smarts like me take too big steps that normals cant rly follow so its unfair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059539) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:33 PM Author: dashing lodge milk That's fine, we'll just let you publish in the vernacular so that you'll be the smartest author anyone can pick up and read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059593) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:38 PM Author: pearly philosopher-king can u explain descartes meaning here? and why did the rhetoric ppl all study religion if they are suppose to be logical (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059607) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:47 PM Author: dashing lodge milk Butterfly effect of Constantine's conversion (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059623) |
Date: August 10th, 2026 9:19 PM Author: cyan crusty brunch ratface 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059535) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: dashing lodge milk In the classroom and in writing, it often takes the form of explicit disputation: a topic drawn from the tradition is broached in the form of a proposition on a question to be debated, oppositional responses are given, a counterproposal is argued and oppositional arguments rebutted. Because of its emphasis on rigorous dialectical method, scholasticism was eventually applied to many other fields of study.[6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: coiffed cumskin The last sentence there definitely follows from the rest! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059541) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:37 PM Author: dashing lodge milk Philosopher Johann Beukes has suggested that from 1349 to 1464, the era between the deaths of William of Ockham and Nicholas of Cusa, there was a distinct period characterized by "robust and independent philosophers" who departed from high scholasticism on issues such as institutional criticism and materialism but retained scholasticism's method. These philosophers include Marsilius of Padua, Thomas Bradwardine, John Wycliffe, Catherine of Sienna, Jean Gerson, Gabriel Biel and ended with Nicholas of Cusa.[30]
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:08 PM Author: Stirring flickering feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059694) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:52 PM Author: Soul-stirring corner Are you sure? have you read the wikipedia entry for Scholasticism yet? It's all in there. QED. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059635) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:01 PM Author: dashing lodge milk Mastery of syllogistic reasoning was your ticket into the club. It was necessary, but no one said it was sufficient to do anything, just like no one thinks a perfect LSAT score qualifies you to practice law. Descartes whined that "but syllogistic reasoning isn't enough," but in order to make that argument Descartes also had to demonstrate his mastery of syllogistic reasoning. And here we are in the 21st century still taking the LSAT.
So what was Descartes really trying to say? What's he got to teach us right now? |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:04 PM Author: Soul-stirring corner what (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059680) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:06 PM Author: dashing lodge milk Descartes was saying syllogistic reasoning can't get you to true knowledge. But anyone trying to figure out who John the Baptist was could have told you the same thing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059689) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: Soul-stirring corner Oh ok cool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059707) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: Stirring flickering feces cr! x, y, z, ... ... ... it was all the persians (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059674) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: cyan crusty brunch ratface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059675) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 9:49 PM Author: Glassy Floppy Station Organic Girlfriend I like how THE LOGIC led St. Augustin to conclude that the saints in heaven enjoy watching the torments of sinners in hell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059631) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 11:38 PM Author: dashing lodge milk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_the_Direction_of_the_Mind (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50059959) |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 7:25 PM Author: dashing lodge milk https://i.imgur.com/7OT3nXm.png (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50062017) |
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Date: September 11th, 2026 6:26 PM Author: Jared Baumeister (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50130617) |
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Date: September 11th, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Junko Enoshima Medieval logic wasn't quite like the logic we know today. I think only the Categories and De Interpretatione were known to Latin Europe in the Middle Ages, and those deal more with the intersection between logic and natural language. A typical concept in medieval logic was the "supposition," the way a substantive word can refer to multiple objects. For example, "man" can refer to any single man currently living, but it was considered a puzzle how "man" could also refer to a man who was once alive, or a man who will be born in the future: the process by which "man" could stand for a past or future man was called "ampliation." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50130629) |
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Date: September 11th, 2026 6:35 PM Author: Jared Baumeister LSAT logic is just as arbitrary in what it considers "formal". We got locked into our present mode of legal reasoning because we took religion out of the picture, mostly. There used to be a lot religious law mixed in with secular law. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50130630) |
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Date: September 11th, 2026 6:37 PM Author: pumpkin spice latte autumn enjoyer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891715&forum_id=2,5#50130632) |