Quadrivium - Quadrivium

Japanese: クアドリウィウム - くあどりうぃうむ
Quadrivium - Quadrivium

... In terms of content, natural science is often characterized as being based on experience, placing importance on experiments and observations, often relying on mathematical expressions, seeking objective universality, and seeking solid causality in laws. However, there have been recent notable claims that the idea that a clear distinction can be made between natural science and other fields of knowledge based on content characteristics is not necessarily valid. Historically, the three departments of the trivium and the four departments of the quadrivium in the classification of academic subjects (seven liberal departments) of medieval Europe could be divided into the humanities and natural sciences if we define the nature of their content from a modern perspective. This is because the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric are the sciences of language, while the quadrivium of arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music are considered to be the sciences of measuring nature. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Quadrivium" are listed below.

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Japanese:

… 内容的には,経験に基礎を置き,実験・観察を重用し,数学的表現に依存することが多く,客観的普遍性を求め,確固たる因果性を法則に求める,といった特徴を言い立てられることも多いが,自然科学と他の知識領域の間に,内容上の特性からはっきりした区別を立てうる,という考え方自体,必ずしも成り立たないとする主張も最近目立つ。歴史的にみれば,ヨーロッパ中世の学問分類(自由七科)のなかでの〈トリウィウムtrivium〉の三科と〈クアドリウィウムquadrivium〉の四科は,今日の視点から内容の性格規定をすれば,〈人文系〉と〈自然系〉に分けることも可能であろう。文法,論理,修辞学のトリウィウムがことばに関する学問であるのに対して,算術,天文学,幾何学,音楽のクアドリウィウムは,自然の計測に関する学問と考えられるからである。…

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