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Arnauld

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

noun

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


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Bolstered by FDA ophthalmologist Arnauld Scafidi, Bruch started disallowing soft lens manufacturers from utilizing salt tablets, decreeing that consumers risked eye infection.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2018

Philosophical contemporaries such as Thomas Hobbes and Antonie Arnauld responded to the Meditations with what appeared then, as now, like fatal objections.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2013

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

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In the course of this dispute, and with the example of Montaigne to hand, Arnauld reinvented the idea of the fact.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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