单词 | sic et non |
释义 | sic et nonn. 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. Frequently attributive. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > sic et non sic et non1917 society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [adjective] > sic et non sic et non1969 1917 E. 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. 1969 T. F. Torrance Theol. Sci. i. 7 The scientific methods developed in scholastic theology.., which derived from the sic et non procedure of Abelard. 1974 Speculum 49 649 [In Muslim religious law] the sic-et-non method was part and parcel of the Islamic orthodox process for determining orthodoxy. 1983 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco 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. 1989 Encycl. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1917 |
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