tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post3685253876792802058..comments2024-03-29T09:09:24.834+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Aristotle's Logic IIKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-30801849085992567392023-03-23T07:21:15.303+00:002023-03-23T07:21:15.303+00:00Kaor, Jim!
No, what I was trying to suggest was t...Kaor, Jim!<br /><br />No, what I was trying to suggest was that Medieval European writers had different emphases than what could be found in Roman literature or the literature seen after, say, 1500.<br /><br />Ad astra! SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-17983709834148019982023-03-22T17:18:12.335+00:002023-03-22T17:18:12.335+00:00"I am sure Medieval Europeans had some idea o..."I am sure Medieval Europeans had some idea or awareness of FICTIONS but I'm not sure how clearly they distinguished it from allegorical/didactic literature."<br /><br />Do you think they lost the clear distinction?<br />Judging by the existence of this:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story<br />people of the Roman Empire had such a clear distinction.Jim Baerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182949391365921637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-48693357453719523312016-10-24T17:04:33.323+01:002016-10-24T17:04:33.323+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Your first comment about how St. Thom...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Your first comment about how St. Thomas Aquinas was limited to using logic in a SINGLE timeline interested me. How and what might he have thought of science fiction, esp. that branch of SF devoted to alternate worlds/time traveling? <br /><br />I am sure Medieval Europeans had some idea or awareness of FICTIONS but I'm not sure how clearly they distinguished it from allegorical/didactic literature. I THINK "fiction" as we understand that term only began to clearly take form in the AD 1300's. Perhaps in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer.<br /><br />I don't include Dante's DIVINE COMEDY as fiction because he insisted both in and out of that poem (e.g., his letter to Can Grande della Scala) that it was based on a genuine vision of the after world.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com