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Equivocation occurs when an argument shifts between meanings of a term. The conquest debate tests whether different senses of barbarian can support the same conclusion.
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Guided course · Module 8 · Lesson 46
Who is recognized as fully human?
At Valladolid, Sepúlveda’s justifications for conquest met Las Casas’s replies. Writing later in Peru, Guaman Poma challenges the terms of such debates by asking who may instruct a colonial ruler.