Verse:Irta/Jacob Wellwise

Jacob Wellwise was a dialectician, lawyer, linguist and composer.

Early life

Personality

Wellwise is described by many of his contemporaries as sharp, witty, musical, sensitive, and sometimes literal-minded, which he considered a blessing when it came to his dialectical ability. He also had a natural tendency to tinker and fidget, which he described in his autobiography:

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Works

Dialectic

Wellwise is notable for writing lots of commentaries on established works at the time – secular, religious, scientific, and even fiction. However he wrote only one treatise, On Fallacies, devoted entirely to logical fallacies, misuse of logic and rhetoric, and how to avoid them.

Law and government

a critique of monarchy and class, based on a dialog with an Albionian?