De coniecturis
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
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- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~36,600 words · 174 passages
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- APANicholas of Cusa. (n.d.). De coniecturis. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicholas-of-cusa/de-coniecturis
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What it is about
On Conjectures: everything the human mind produces is conjecture.
Context and history
The technical sequel to Learned Ignorance. If exact truth is unreachable, knowledge is approximation — and Cusanus builds a theory of how it approximates, with geometrical figures and numbers. It is the hardest of his books. Text in LATIN: Cusanus's original, and the version to cite.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
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