What the Debate Is and Why It Founders in Fragment A of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Siegel, Marsha.

Title
What the Debate Is and Why It Founders in Fragment A of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Studies in Philology 82 (1985): 1-24.

Description
The fragment considers how well human beings can understand and order reality. KnT and MilT provide positive solutions: KnT through Boethian metaphysics; MilT by restricting sources of causation. The debate founders in RvT and CkT, where subjectivity blinds tellers to the nature of the debate.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.