Definition:Pythagoreans/Trivium

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Definition

The trivium was the medieval name of the supplementary course of study of the Pythagoreans, adopted by the educational establishments in Europe.

These supplementary bodies of knowledge were:

Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic.


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Linguistic Note

The word trivium is a Latin word meaning the three ways, or place where three roads meet.

As the trivium was a preliminary course of study to the quadrivium, and thereby simpler, from this root the word trivial evolved, which has a meaning in accordance with insignificant, self-evident and commonplace, and the like.


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