Trivium

Question 1

Name the parts of the Trivium

Answer 1

1-General Grammar
2-Formal Logic
3-Classical Rhetoric

Question 2

What is General Grammar?

Answer 2

Answers the question of who, what, where, when of a subject.

Discovering and ordering facts of reality comprises basic, systematic Knowledge.

Question 3

Formal Logic

Answer 3

Answering ‘the why’ of a subject. Developing the faculty of reason in establishing valid [i.e., non-contradictory] relationships among facts, systematic Understanding.

Question 4

Classical Rhetoric

Answer 4

Provides the how of a subject. Applying knowledge and understanding expressively comprises Wisdom or, in other words, it is systematically useable knowledge and understanding.