Meaning of pons asinorum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A method for finding the middle term of a syllogism in Aristotlean analytics.
2. An obstacle which will defeat a beginner or foolish person.
3. A proposition in Euclid stating that the angles at the base of an isoceles triangle are equal.

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Examples

“[H]e had scarce advanced beyond the Pons Asinorum, when his ardour abated, the test⟳ of truth by demonstration did not elevate him to those transports of joy with which his preceptor had regaled his expectation; and before he arrived at the fortieth and seventh proposition, he began to yawn⟳ drearily […].”

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