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rhetorical
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
theory, the quaestiones (Latin: "questions") are the points being debated.
''Quaestiones'' is also the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order:
*the ''
Tusculanae Disputationes
The ''Tusculanae Disputationes'' (also ''Tusculanae Quaestiones''; English: ''Tusculan Disputations'') is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Greek philosophy in Ancient Rome, including Stoicism. It is s ...
'' of Roman statesman
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...
, around 45 BC
*the ''Quaestiones'' of Roman jurist
Sextus Caecilius Africanus, around 160
*the ''Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate'', 1256-1259, see
List of works by Thomas Aquinas
The collected works of Thomas Aquinas are being edited in the ''Editio Leonina'' (established 1879).
As of 2014, 39 out of a projected 50 volumes have been published.
The works of Aquinas can be grouped into six categories as follows:
#Works wr ...
*the ''
Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae
''Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae'' (''Certain philosophical questions'') is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his earlier years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day ...
'' of English physicist Isaac Newton (1661)
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