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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez
  3. From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
  4. Subject: What is trivial?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov7.182759.22423@galois.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz
  8. Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
  9. References: <1992Nov5.061236.3595@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Nov5.204018.3311@galois.mit.edu> <1992Nov6.194950.18823@cs.yale.edu>
  10. Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 18:27:59 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Nov6.194950.18823@cs.yale.edu> choo@cs.yale.edu (Young-il Choo) writes:
  14. >If I remember correctly, the trivium consisted of 
  15. > grammar
  16. > rhetoric (which included logic) and 
  17. > poetics (or poetry, though today this would be more like "writing" or
  18. >   "composition")
  19. >
  20. >[From Dorothy Sayers' "Tools of Learning"]
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  22. Webster's unabridged dictionary sides with my recollection of the
  23. trivium as grammar, rhetoric and logic.  Perhaps Sayers is using her
  24. poetic license.  :-)
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