За понятието ‘циркумстанция’ в Латинското средновековие. Циркумстанция и иновация
On the Term Circumstantiae in the Latin Middle Ages. Circumstance and Innovation

Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to the topic of the circumstantiae. In my point of view, they are a specific rhetorical category, not just a physical ‘circumstance’. By analogy with Aristotle’s categories, the circumstantiae can be distinguished as ‘genera for the infinite meanings’ and are therefore more than a tool helping a particular rhetorical situation to be shaped. Thus, if we allow ourselves to consider them in the spirit of the philosophical categorical systematics, then the circumstantiae become independent signifiers in relation to the infinite number of specific times, places or agents, which set the framework for examining the particular rhetorical „case“.

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