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anti-commentary en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + commentary.

Meanings

1. (of philosophy) A hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
   • More comprehensive than any of these […] is the De Rerum Natura juxta propria principia of Bernardino Telesio: in one sense a commentary on the natural philosophical works of Aristotle, in another sense a rejection of the Philosopher – an anti-commentary, as it were. 2018, Linda Deer Richardson, Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance: The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497–1558), →ISBN, page 144:
   • Metrodorus too had written against two Platonic dialogues polemics that appear to have been of a similar sort; and later Philodemus also composed an anti-commentary against Xenophon’s Oeconomicus. 2011, Eleni Kechagia, Plutarch Against Colotes: A Lesson in History of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 80:
   • The first argues that sacred signs ordained by God have always been corrupted by men, the second, called ‘our litil treatise of ye Messe’, is an anti-commentary on the Mass and vestments, and the third a commentary on the Reformed liturgy. 2019, Stephen Mark Holmes, “Liturgical Theology before 1600”, in David Ferguson, Mark W. Elliott, editors, The History of Scottish Theology, volume 1, Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy, →ISBN, page 63:
   • The Herculaneum papyri preserve fragments of two other works of his: the anticommentaries “Against Plato’s Euthydemus” (PHerc. 1032) and “Against Plato’s Lysis” (PHerc. 208). 2021, Michael McOsker, The Good Poem According to Philodemus, →ISBN, page 53:

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