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The 7 Liberal Arts - Trivium, Quadrivium and Logical Fallacies
The 7 Liberal Arts - Trivium, Quadrivium and Logical Fallacies
The 7 Liberal Arts - Trivium, Quadrivium and Logical Fallacies
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Tools of Knowing
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Any observation enters our mind through the 5 senses. Then we use our mind
and apply the Trivium and the Quadrivium in order to process the
observation. This process consists of several steps which enable us to
understand how the observation relates to what we already know, how we
can explain this new piece of information to others and how we can store it in
a methodical way.
The Trivium is the first half of the 7 Liberal Arts. It consists of 3 elements :
General grammar, formal logic and classical rhetoric. Sacred texts often refer
to these 3 elements as knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The
overarching topic of the Trivium is communication and language.
This rather general concept of the Trivium has been removed from the
curriculum of public education over the last 100 years. It can be assumed
that this happened because people who lack truly critical thinking skills are a
lot easier to govern. Especially through mass media it is now possible for the
government to spin almost every event, invent false realities and then sell
them to their population. But this only works as long as people are not able to
think for themselves and see through the manipulation. Especially the
principle of the "Hegelian dialectic" where an artificial problem is created in
order to cause a reaction within the population so that a prepared solution
can be introduced would not work anymore if people were able to see the
patterns by which their government is "guiding" them.
Logical Fallacies
This is a list of logical fallacies which are commonly used in arguments, this is
part of the aspect of logic within the Trivium. You will probably find this to be
a really useful part of this article because once you become aware of these
tactics, you will be able to see them whenever anybody uses them on
yourself.
The Quadrivium
space and the natural harmonics between the planets when looking at the
aspect of time (harmony of the spheres). This is the first time aspects of time
and space meet with the abstraction of number thus it builds the foundation
for science.