Accepted ontology entry
A summa is a comprehensive systematic treatise that gathers and orders all available knowledge on a subject into a single authoritative work. It operates through structured division (distinctiones) and exhaustive enumeration (quaestiones),…
A summa is a comprehensive systematic treatise that gathers and orders all available knowledge on a subject into a single authoritative work. It operates through structured division (distinctiones) and exhaustive enumeration (quaestiones), persisting through written manuscripts and printed editions. A summa requires authorial organization of material into categories, arguments, and resolutions.
[formal: summa | substrate: mind | horizon: centuries | explicit: yes | epoch: 1.00]
A summa is a comprehensive systematic treatise on a subject — a human-made genre of organized writing that collects, structures, and presents all known knowledge on a topic in a single authoritative work.
A summa requires classification to organize its subject matter into structured categories, distinctions, and quaestiones. Without the practice of classification, a summa cannot operate or exist.
A summa IS a specific kind of compilation — a comprehensive treatise that gathers and organizes all knowledge on a subject. Competent-speaker test: 'a summa is a type of compilation' passes. Law 9: specific→general.
No accepted relations in this direction.