She also employed other mystical ascetic works such as the Tractatus de oratione et meditatione of Saint Peter of Alcantara, and perhaps many of those upon which Saint Ignatius of Loyola based his Spiritual Exercises and possibly the Spiritual Exercises themselves.

Charles Moore Watson ( 1844 – 1916 ) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures ( also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris ), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies " troni ponderacionem "— which the Public Record Commissioners translates as " troy weight ".

* Tractatus Astrologico Magicus, also known as the Aldaraia and the Book of Soyga, a 16th century Latin treatise on magic

He also wrote the Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici ( Consolation upon the death of a friend ), addressed to Louis upon the death of his son Louis in 1260.

Albert ’ s commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics and the Economics also survive ( both unedited ), as well as several short mathematical texts, most notably Tractatus proportionum 1353.

It also engaged with the thought of Baruch Spinoza, in Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, though he was named only as a " late author mightily in vogue ".

The Tractatus iuris was also printed twice and survives in more than two dozen manuscripts.

Eymerich also wrote numerous works, including his Tractatus de potestate papali ( 1383 ) defending the legitimacy of the Avignon popes, Clement VII and Benedict XIII.

De sphaera mundi ( Latin meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos ; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera ) is a medieval introduction to the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco ( John of Holywood ) c. 1230.

Gaurico was widely renowned as an astrologer, and his Tractatus Astrologicus ( 1552 ) also contained charts of the foundation of various buildings and cities.

He also wrote Tractatus de principiis, a non-theological work, while he was lector at the Franciscan convent in Bologna some time before 1312, and some treatises on the Immaculate Conception at the Franciscan convent in Toulouse.

Ogden with Comments on the English Translation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, including correspondence with Ramsey.

A prominent view set out in the Tractatus is the picture theory.

The confusion that the Tractatus seeks to dispel is not a confused theory, such that a correct theory would be a proper way to clear the confusion, rather the need of any such theory is confused.

W. L. Warren advances the theory that either Walter or Geoffrey Fitz Peter, instead of Ranulf Glanvill, was the author of Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae, a legal treatise on the laws and constitutions of the English.

In Tractatus de proportionibus ( 1328 ), Bradwardine extended the theory of proportions of Eudoxus of Cnidus to anticipate the concept of exponential growth, later developed by the Bernoulli and Euler, with compound interest as a special case.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, was a work of terse, lapidary brilliance that advanced, among other things, a logical theory of symbolism and a " picture " or " model " theory of language.

Bellarmine's Tractatus de potestate summi pontificis in temporalibus reiterated, against Bodin's sovereignty theory, an indirect form of the traditional papal deposing power to release subjects from the duty of obedience to tyrants.

In 1611 he published, at Venice, a scientific work entitled: Tractatus de radiis visus et lucis in vitris, perspectivis et iride, in which, according to Isaac Newton, he was the first to develop the theory of the rainbow, by drawing attention to the fact that in each raindrop the light undergoes two refractions and an intermediate reflection.

It was this event which made him realize that the subject of this process could be described by pictures as well as in words -- the genesis of his picture theory of language ( Tractatus 2 .*).

Another theory, usually sustained by Spanish authors, asserted the author of the < span lang = la > Tractatus </ span > was Castilian, and a member of the Dominican Order.

The Tractatus introduced many doctrines which later influenced logical positivism, including the concept of philosophy as a " critique of language ," and the possibility of making a theoretically principled distinction between intelligible and nonsensical discourse.

Compare, for example, Proposition 4. 024 of the Tractatus, where Wittgenstein asserts that we understand a proposition when we know what happens if it is true, with Schlick's assertion that " To state the circumstances under which a proposition is true is the same as stating its meaning.

Besides stressing the Investigation's opposition to the Tractatus, there are critical approaches which have argued that there is much more continuity and similarity between the two works than supposed.

In his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus he stays generally within the realm of logical positivism, until claim 6. 4, but at 6. 41 and following the succeeding propositions argue that ethics and several other issues are " transcendental " subjects which we cannot examine with language.

But in his later years, Wittgenstein wrote works which are often interpreted as conflicting with his positions in the Tractatus, and indeed the later Wittgenstein is mainly seen as the leading critic of the early Wittgenstein.

Other Europeans depended for their view of Polish Sarmatism on Miechowita's Tractatus de Duabus Sarmatiis, a work which provided a substantial source of information about the territories and peoples of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in a language of international currency.

In the Tractatus coislinianus ( which may or may not be by Aristotle ), comedy is defined as involving three types of characters: the buffoon ( bômolochus ), the ironist ( eirôn ) and the imposter or boaster ( alazôn ).

The later years of his life were spent in comparative quiet, devoted in part to the preparation of his expositions of the Psalms ( Tractatus super Psalmos ), for which he was largely indebted to Origen ; of his Commentarius in Evangelium Matthaei, an allegorical exegesis of the first Gospel ; and of his no longer extant translation of Origen's commentary on Job.

In keeping with his interest in the circulatory system, Lower went on to write Tractatus de Corde, which described the muscular fibers of the heart, a method of ligaturing veins to produce dropsy, blood coagulation in the heart, the motion of digestive fluids, and other physiologic topics.

However, this critique of metaphysics, carried on by the first Wittgenstein, in his 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, for example, has been in return criticized by philosophers, such as Heidegger in his 1927 Being and Time, as a form of positivism or, worse, scientism, which is accused of having decided to abandon the most important questions about humanity and the Being, under the pretext that no definitive answer can be brought to them.

Among his other publications were Seawater made Fresh ( 1684 ), the Nature and Use of the Salt contained in Epsom and such other Waters ( 1697 ), which was a rendering of his Tractatus de salis ( 1693 ), and Cosmologia Sacra ( 1701 ).

The first mention of the word is in Paulus Paulirinus of Prague's ( 1413 – 1471 ) Tractatus de musica of around 1460 where he writes: The virginal is an instrument in the shape of a clavichord, having metal strings which give it the timbre of a clavicembalo.

The term Wittgenstein's ladder stems from proposition number 6. 54 in the acclaimed philosophical work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, which reads:

In his extensive work Tractatus de legibus ac deo legislatore ( reprinted, London, 1679 ) he is to some extent the precursor of Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf, in making an important distinction between natural law and international law, which he saw as based on custom.

He regarded Wittgenstein as a philosopher with a genius for stating philosophical insights in striking and memorable language, but believed that Wittgenstein ( or at least, the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus ) made claims which could only be supported by recourse to metaphysics.

Statement 6. 41 appears to be an appeal ; the word must shows up in striking contrast to the rest of Tractatus, which consist of declarative statements.

She was one of a select group of students to whom Wittgenstein dictated the so-called Blue and Brown Books, which outline the transition in Wittgenstein's thought between his two major works, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations.

In 1976, he wrote Tractatus Post Historicus, which formed the theoretical basis of his early work.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was a text of great importance for the positivists.

According to Neurath, some logical positivists disliked the Tractatus, since they thought it included a great deal of metaphysics.

Tractatus was influential chiefly amongst the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle, such as Rudolf Carnap and Friedrich Waismann.

Although the Vienna Circle's logical positivists appreciated the Tractatus, they argued that the last few passages, including Proposition 7, are confused.