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Peter Abelard
(1079 - 21 Apr 1142)
French scholar whose controversial writings included Sic et Non (Yes or No), which explained theories of logic. He is best known for a tragic love affair with Heloise. [Image: Abelard and Héloïse, a miniature portrait from the book Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) by French poet, Jean de Meun, (c.1250-1305) who also wrote rhyming treatise on alchemy.]
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Science Quotes by Peter Abelard (2)
Dubitanda quippe ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus. (By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth.)
— Peter Abelard
Sic et Non [c.1120], Preface, in Sic et Non: A Critical Edition, B. Boyer and R. McKeon (eds.) (1970), 103, lines 338-339, quoted in M. T. Clanchy, Abelard, A Medieval Life (1997), 107.
See also: | Enquiry (38)
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning ... For by doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiry we arrive at truth.
— Peter Abelard
Sic et Non (c. 1120). In Frederick Denison Maurice, Mediaeval Philosophy, Or, A Treatise of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy (1870), 138.
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