Ars inveniendi

When the ars inveniendi ( from the Latin ars "art" and invenire "invent" ) is - is the art of discovery and reasoning - in analogy to other scholars in Roman antiquity arts.

It is ( from the Latin quaerere " ask " ) as a supplement to ars quaerendi to understand - the art of questioning searching, which is the beginning of each research.

The neologism ars inveniendi probably goes back to the philosopher and jurist Cicero ( 106-43 BC), who she sees as an art of finding rhetorical arguments. In contrast to her is Cicero, who was a gifted orator, which ( from the Latin iudicare "judge" ) ars iudicandi that deals with the evaluation and argumentative structure a speech - based on ideas of Aristotle.

From Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), however, comes the definition of ars inveniendi as a scientific method for the discovery of new truths within a subject area.

Christian Wolff (1679-1754) defines the ars inveniendi as the detection of previously unknown truths and sees them linked to a logic of language. It stresses, however - in contrast to today's heuristic - in addition to the view of innovations and the self- restraints on over been handed down.

• Philosophy of Science
• Rhetoric