Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An explanatory note or commentary, as on a Greek or Latin text.
  • noun A note amplifying a proof or course of reasoning, as in mathematics.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A marginal note, annotation, or remark; an explanatory comment; specifically, an explanatory remark annexed to a Latin or Greek author by an early grammarian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.
  • noun A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.

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  • noun a note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary
  • noun mathematics a note added to a proof as amplification

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  • noun a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from Greek skholion, diminutive of skholē, lecture, school; see segh- in Indo-European roots.]

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New Latin, from Greek σχόλιον (comment), from σχολή (discussion).

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Examples

  • A very important characteristic regarding attributes is established in 2P7 and its scholium, which is sometimes referred to in the literature as the “parallelism doctrine.”

    Prologue 2009

  • "Of course the scholium was the real achievement -- but you threw up an installation in record time, too, it seems to me."

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • The same thing is related (in a well-known 'scholium') to have been done by Apolinarius and Theodore of Mopsuestia.

    The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850

  • Then came nepenthe and scholium, aleatoric and consuetude.

    Pool of National Spelling Bee competitors whittled down to 48 2010

  • It is thus advisable to stay clear of it and simply refer to this doctrine as “2P7 and its scholium.”

    Prologue 2009

  • Gueroult, in order to account for the professed identity between modes of different attributes in 2P7 and its scholium, considers 1P28 which states:

    Prologue 2009

  • The general description of 2P7 and its scholium is discussed above in Section 1.6.

    Prologue 2009

  • Therefore, the understanding of the nature of the union of mind and body depends on one's interpretation of Spinoza's theory of attributes and 2P7 and its scholium in particular.

    Prologue 2009

  • Spinoza explains this proposition in the scholium:

    Prologue 2009

  • Finally, and perhaps most importantly, given the holistic and systematic nature of Spinoza's metaphysics and the central role attributes play in it, the article points out how the different interpretative options on one issue bear on others (e.g. the number of attributes and the understanding of 2P7 and its scholium).

    Prologue 2009

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    June 14, 2011