Locus - Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Literary Theory

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Literary Theory

  • The method of loci is a mnemonic system based on places.
  • A Locus (rhetoric) is another name for a literary or rhetorical topos, a method of constructing an argument.
  • Loci Theologici was a term applied by Melanchthon to Evangelical systems of dogmatics.

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