{"id":76325,"date":"2022-09-29T07:24:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/pons-asinorum\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T07:24:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:24:46","slug":"pons-asinorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/pons-asinorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pons asinorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pons asinorum<\/h2>\n<p>The literal meaning of the Latin expression, asses&#8217; bridge, has been figuratively applied to a diagram constructed by Petrus Tartaretus about 1480, whose purpose was to aid the student of logic in finding the middle term of a syllogism and disclose its relations. It was assumed that it was as difficult to persuade students to do this as to get asses to pass over a bridge. Hence the expression has also been applied to any relatively easy test. Euclids proposition, that if two sides of a triangle are equal the angles opposite to those sides must also be equal, has been called a pons asinorum for students of geometry &#8212; J.J.R.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pons asinorum The literal meaning of the Latin expression, asses&#8217; bridge, has been figuratively applied to a diagram constructed by Petrus Tartaretus about 1480, whose purpose was to aid the student of logic in finding the middle term of a syllogism and disclose its relations. It was assumed that it was as difficult to persuade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/pons-asinorum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pons asinorum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}