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  • "Rhetoric is one great art comprised of five lesser arts: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronunciatio."

    Definitions of Rhetoric 2010

  • In the third book of his commentary on the Physics, comment twenty, the Commentator [= Averroes] says that a relation is a disposition (dispositio) existing between two things.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • I am, then, coming to the book with a slightly different dispositio, reading it as a memorial and knowing, in a small way, some of the things that made Medcalf tick.

    Stephen Medcalf (ed), The Later Middle Ages (London, 1981) Miglior acque 2008

  • Hm. Some terms from classical rhetoric involving the canon of arrangement: dispositio taxis enumeratio merismus catacosmesis chiasmus digressio epiphonema (my personal favorite) complexio

    Names are important « Dyepot, Teapot 2006

  • I am, then, coming to the book with a slightly different dispositio, reading it as a memorial and knowing, in a small way, some of the things that made Medcalf tick.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • For this special kind of signification he uses the words consignificatio and dispositio.

    Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007

  • Here Baumgarten is importing the traditional rhetorical concepts of inventio, dispositio and elocutio into his system, and conceiving of the latter two, the harmony of the thoughts and the harmony of the expression with the thoughts, as the dimensions in which the potentials for pleasure within our distinctively sensible manner of representing and thinking are realized.

    18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

  • Purgetur si ejus dispositio venerit ad adust, humoris, et phlebotomizetur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • How comes, or wherefore is this temeraria siderum dispositio, this rash placing of stars, or as Epicurus will, fortuita, or accidental?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • To stress this point, Ramus in some of his writings preferred to call the second part of logic not iudicium but dispositio or arrangement.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

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