Arnauld

American  

[ahr-noh, anr-noh] / ɑrˈnoʊ, ɛ̃rˈnoʊ /

noun

1. Antoine, 1612–94, French Jansenist theologian and philosopher.

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Example Sentences

Except, of course, Arnauld didn’t use the word ‘evidence’, as he was writing French, not English.

From Literature

Quintilian is a fundamental reference point for Arnauld: ‘Quintilian and all the other rhetoricians, Aristotle and all the philosophers...’

From Literature

If the strangeness of the fact could not be undone, at least the evidence for it could be reinforced so that it was turned into a stubborn fact; this was how, Arnauld argued, we could be confident in the miracles reported by St Augustine, for, strange as they might be, who could doubt his veracity?

From Literature

As Arnauld recognized, the question of where to draw the line between facts that were too strange to be credible and facts that were strange but stubborn was far from straightforward.

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As Arnauld had argued in The Logic of Port-Royal, plain facts beat strange facts every time.

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