Treatise

This article is about the literary form. For the musical composition by Cornelius Cardew, see Treatise (music).
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A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject.

Noteworthy treatises

Treatises have been written by various philosophers:

See also

References

  1. J. L. Berggren, Alexander Jones; Ptolemy's Geography By Ptolemy, Princeton University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-691-09259-1
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