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    The anonymous compiler of the Compendium philosophiae (c. 1316; “Compendium of Philosophy”) believed the knowledge of truth to be the supreme and final perfection of humankind; thus, he never moralized on the contents of his encyclopaedia, its cumulative effect thereby being the more impressive.

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    The anonymous compiler of the Compendium philosophiae (c. 1316; “Compendium of Philosophy”) believed the knowledge of truth to be the supreme and final perfection of humankind; thus, he never moralized on the contents of his encyclopaedia, its cumulative effect thereby being the more impressive.

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