Quaestiones

Quaestiones

In rhetorical theory, Quaestiones ( _la. 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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