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ABELARD, PETER

1079–1142

Sic et Non (The Method of the Layer Cake)

Abelard set the affirmations of the Fathers against their denials and refused to resolve the contradiction. The student was made to live in the gap. CoCA inherits this directly: the Palimpsest (§2.3.3) does not erase the prior writing; it permits both. Where the schoolmen sought synthesis, we practice the Paradoxy. Anti-Anti-Ness is Sic et Non without the medieval anxiety. Both are kept. The reader chooses the day.

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