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rhetorical
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse (trivium) along with grammar and logic/dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or writ ...
theory, the quaestiones (Latin: "questions") are the points being debated.
''Quaestiones'' is also the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order:
*the ''
Tusculanae Disputationes
The ''Tusculanae Disputationes'' (also ''Tusculanae Quaestiones''; English: ''Tusculan Disputations'') is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Greek philosophy in ancient Rome, including Stoicism. It is ...
'' of Roman statesman
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...
, around 45 BC
*the ''Quaestiones'' of Roman jurist
Sextus Caecilius Africanus, around 160
*the ''
Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate
The ''Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate'' (, henceforth ''QDV'' and sometimes spelled ''de Ueritate'') by Thomas Aquinas is a collection of questions that are discussed in the disputation style of medieval scholasticism.
It covers a variety of ...
'', 1256-1259.
*the ''
Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae
''Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae'' (''Certain philosophical questions'') is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his earlier years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day ...
'' of English physicist Isaac Newton (1661)
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