quodlibet

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noun an issue that is presented for formal disputation

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From Latin quod libet (“that which is pleasing”).

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Again, I doubt not a jot but there be yet some of you who will say that the things aforesaid are full of quips and cranks and quodlibets and that it ill beseemeth a man of weight and gravity to have written thus. — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio
These are set forth in the proposition, so renowned among the schoolmen—‘Quodlibet ens est UNUM, VERUM, BONUM.’ Now, though the inferences from this principle were mere tautological propositions, and though it is allowed only by courtesy to retain a place in modern metaphysics, yet a thought which maintained itself for such a length of time, however empty it seems to be, deserves an investigation of its origin, and justifies the conjecture that it must be grounded in some law of the understanding, which, as is often the case, has only been erroneously interpreted. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant

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