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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

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.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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