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What is a trivium?

What is a trivium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical, in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
  2. (zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
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The trivium was an introduction to metaphysics, but the metaphysics were strongly theological in bias and nakedly logical in form.
The trivium was the real basis of the secular education of the period.
In these last two divisions we have the root of the medival trivium and quadrivium.
But let us rather seek it in the curriculum of the trivium and Quadrivium.
The trivium and the quadrivium represented the available means of expression.
The trivium was sometimes designated as logic and the Quadrivium as physic.

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