# Trivium #

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The basis of education.

In medieval universities, the `trivium` comprised the three subjects that were taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The word is a Latin term meaning "the three ways" or "the three roads" forming the foundation of a medieval liberal arts education. This study was preparatory for the `quadrivium`.

>Grammar is concerned with the thing as-it-is-symbolized (the art of expression),
>Logic is concerned with the thing as-it-is-known (the art of thinking), and
>Rhetoric is concerned with the thing as-it-is-communicated (the adaption of language to circumstance, to communicate thought from one mind to another).


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## Resources ##

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium
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