The Trivium Discussion

This was a really chaotic and disastrous dialogue for me for many reasons. It was the first time I have actually felt frustrated with people and with the MPC.

So, I worked my butt off this weekend in order to finish the book on time, and when I got here only 4 other people had read the book. I got upset and asked them for their reason or excuse for not reading the book. Their answer, I think, was not a valid one. They answered that they didn't read because they didn't have any time. I really find this ridiculous. We all had more than 2 weeks to read the book, more than enough time, and if they didn't read it then, they could've just done what I did. Last thursday, Bert asked us how far ahead we were in the Trivium and most of the people were way ahead of me, so I decided to sacrifice my week end and just read and catch up on the Trivium. But no, people here give more importance to parties, boyfriends/girlfriends, dinner etcetera, I mean I had other things to do also. This gets me really annoyed, because fist of all, they were not responsible and left thing for the last minute (like me), and secondly because they complain about it. It is their fault and no one else's that they are not up to date.  more than a week has passed since then, and people have still not read the book.

Once in the dialogue I got even more frustrated because we only discussed chapter 1 and 2. So I read the whole book just to discuss 2 chapters and we had already discussed chapter 1. Our conversation was getting way off topic, we had already discussed most of the things we were talking about. I just wanted to leave because I really wasn't feeling productive.

There was a really big turn point for me during the dialogue. At the end the ones who had read actually started talking about the last chapters and we actually we made some great discoveries. I believe only a few of the rest were paying attention, since they hadn't read they didn't follow the conversation.

Here are some of those discoveries:

• Logic is correctness in thinking which is the normal means to reach the truth, which is the conformity of thought with things as they are - with reality. 
• According so Sister Miriam we can also reach the truth by Theology, the "knowledge of God" which is availabe through revelation. 
• Inference comes from deduction in order to conclude the premises which come from induction.