| 释义 |
‖ sic et non, n. phr.|sɪk ɛt nɒn, older siːk ɛt nəʊn|
[L., lit. ‘yes and no’, the title of a work by Peter Abelard, 12th-c. French theologian and philosopher.]
A method of theological argument used by Abelard and later Scholastics, in which contradictory passages of scripture are presented without commentary, in order to stimulate readers to resolve the contradictions themselves. Freq. attrib. Also transf.
1917E. F. Rogers Peter Lombard vi. 64 Lombard was more dependent on the model of Abelard's ‘sic et non’: the gathering of ‘authorities’ in a systematic, methodical way, for and against a doctrine. 1969T. F. Torrance Theol. Sci. i. 7 The scientific methods developed in scholastic theology.., which derived from the sic et non procedure of Abelard. 1974Speculum XLIX. 649 [In Muslim religious law] the sic-et-non method was part and parcel of the Islamic orthodox process for determining orthodoxy. 1983W. Weaver tr. Eco's Name of Rose iii. 185 The abbey..was not corrupted by disputation, by the quodlibetical conceit that would subject every mystery..to the scrutiny of the sic et non. 1989Encycl. Brit. I. 26/1 When he [sc. Abelard] returned to Saint-Denis he applied his Sic et non methods to the subject of the abbey's patron saint. |