positum

Now, it seems to me that the Vulgate does a very ingenious thing by translatingκειμενον as positum (– us) (from pono) simply “put” or “laid,” but linking this basic term toεντετυλιγμενον by choosing involutum (involutus, – a, – um), which means literally hidden, obscured, or veiled.

Easter Sunday 2009

Now, it seems to me that the Vulgate does a very ingenious thing by translatingκειμενον as positum (– us) (from pono) simply “put” or “laid,” but linking this basic term toεντετυλιγμενον by choosing involutum (involutus, – a, – um), which means literally hidden, obscured, or veiled.

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Neither step 2 nor its contradictory follows from the positum alone.

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

That is, for him, a propositum is "sequentially relevant" if and only if it logically follows from the positum alone; it is "incompatibly relevant" if and only if its contradictory opposite follows from the positum alone; it is "irrelevant" if and only if it is neither sequentially nor incompatibly relevant.

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

This is just a repetition of the positum, except that here it is not being posited but proposed.

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

Step 3 follows from the positum and the contradictory of step 2 (step 2 was denied, recall).

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

(The positum says nothing at all about the location of the Mason-Dixon Line or of Atlanta.)

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

On this account, a positio would explore "what would happen" if the positum were true but everything else stayed as much as possible the same as it really is.

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

If the respondent denies the positum, the disputation is over before it really gets started.

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

From the positum it follows neither that the capital of Pennsylvania is south of the Mason-Dixon Line nor that it isn't.

Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008