Definition of "quodlibet" []

• A theological or philosophical issue presented for formal argument or disputation. (noun)
• Formal disputation of such an issue. (noun)
• Music A usually humorous medley. (noun)

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• "The apostles also confuted the heathen philosophers and Jews, a people than whom none more obstinate, but rather by their good lives and miracles than syllogisms: and yet there was scarce one among them that was capable of understanding the least "quodlibet" of the Scotists."
• "Ex falso sequitur quodlibet, from a false hypothesis anything can follow, likewise sums up your own m.o. all too well and all too frequently; whether subtly or more overtly and more arrogantly still; distorting what others say, then adding the pointed barb and the tacit, the barely unspoken “fuck-off”."
• "Johannes Brassicanus quoted three of them in his quodlibet Was wölln wir aber heben an?"