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“He smiled at the discord of philosophers. Philosophy,” he complained, “aims only at hair-splitting, subtle distinctions, quibbles of words.
Such a discipline could make clever debaters, but hardly wise men. He laughed at the high degree of Master and Doctor with which such studies were crowned, and marveled how a ceremony could make a pundit out of a fool. ”
-Petrarch
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Such a discipline could make clever debaters, but hardly wise men. He laughed at the high degree of Master and Doctor with which such studies were crowned, and marveled how a ceremony could make a pundit out of a fool. ”
-Petrarch
