[463] I.e. as positive, comparative, and superlative.
[464] Cousin, Ouvr. inédits, p. 175. Cf. Aristotle’s Categories, ii. v. 20. The opening of Pars tertia of Abaelard’s Dialectica (in Cousin’s edition, p. 324 sqq.) affords an interesting example of this logical analysis and reconstruction of statement, which seems to originate in sheer grammar, and then advance beyond it.
[465] Cousin, o.c. pp. 190, 192.
[466] Cousin, o.c. p. 331.
[467] Prantl’s Geschichte der Logik, vol. ii., contains an exhaustive discussion of the various phases of this controversy: its language is little less difficult than that of the twelfth-century word-twisters.
[468] Cousin, o.c. pp. 434, 435.
[469] Theologia Christiana, iv. (Migne 178, col. 1284).
[470] Migne, Pat. Lat. 178, col. 1641.
[471] Ante, p. 292.
[472] Scito te ipsum, cap. 13 (Migne 178, col. 653).