Tractate
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A tractate is a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject; the word derives from the Latin tractatus, meaning treatise.[1]
One example of its use is in citing a section of the Talmud, when the term Masekhet (מסכת) is used in conjunction with the name of the subject, for example, Masekhet Berakhoth, which is relevant to plants and farming.[2]
Two further examples are the 1670 and '76 Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza, and the 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
See also
- All pages beginning with Tractate
- Minor tractate
- Tract (disambiguation)
- Tractatus (disambiguation)
- Treatise
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