Arnauld

[ahr-noh, anr-noh]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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’.

From Literature

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

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.

From Literature

The four final chapters of that work, apparently composed after 1660, and probably written by Antoine Arnauld, are famous for outlining modern probability theory for the first time; they are also the first extended discussion in French of the concept of the fact, for facts are here defined as contingent events, and contingent events are more or less probable.

From Literature