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Lectio difficilior potior

Lectio difficilior potior (Latin: "the difficult reading is stronger") is an important, internal criterion in textual criticism. When different manuscripts of a text conflict, this principle requires that the harder, unusual, more obtuse reading is to be preferred. It is based on the assumption that scribes are more likely to replace odd words in…

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Lectio difficilior potior

Nodes28
Edges27
Triples11
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1

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Lectio difficilior potior → He, Housman, Many, Maurice, Modern, On, Robinson, Textual Criticism, The, The Application, Thought

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Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseMany0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseThe0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseHousman0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseThe Application0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseThought0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseTextual Criticism0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseOn0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseModern0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseMaurice0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseRobinson0.60section
Lectio difficilior potiorrelated to Scholarly UseHe0.60section

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