Quaestiones

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In rhetorical theory, Quaestiones (Latin:Questions), is a term for debatable points around which disputes are centered.

It is also is the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order:

  • the Tusculanae Quaestiones of Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, around 45 BC
  • the Quaestiones of Roman jurist Sextus Caecilius Africanus, around 160
  • the Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate of Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas, 1256-1259
  • the Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae of English physicist Isaac Newton (1661)
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