Arnauld

[ahr-noh, anr-noh]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The pope, Arnauld argued, had authority in matters de jure but not in matters de facto.

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However, if you mistakenly assume that the key problem lay in distinguishing clues from testimony, then you might conclude that it was only in The Logic of Port-Royal that Arnauld finally differentiated the two, for we are told that he drew a distinction between ‘internal evidence’ and ‘external evidence’.

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

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Arnauld is not copying Quintilian, but he is reworking him in order to go beyond him.

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

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