6 juillet 2022
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Pedro Pereira Leite, « The abderitic », Global Education and Cultural Diversity, ID : 10.58079/p2dw
Abderitic is a play on words, a thought made up of charades, which according to José Anastácio da Cunha was a characteristic of a scholastic and Jesuit system of thought, marked by the Inquisition. He then said in his "Literary News about Portugal", written in 1780:-"What to expect from a Nation in which half awaits the Messiah and the other Dom Sebastião". And he argued: -"The taste for geometry, for oriental languages, for Greek ended in Portugal. The taste for Concetti, word games, whic...