When someone writes a "treatise" who are they writing to?

Answer 1

A specialist audience of peers who can assess tha academic work involved from a knowledgeable perspective.

Answer 2

Someone writing a treatise is just writing in much the same way someone who writes a novel or an essay is.

A treatise is defined by being an in depth meditation on or explanation of one topic and were popular during the enlightenment when peole didn't have anything to do but write stuff.

Answer 3

Posterity, or a court ... below is far more information than you want.

trea·tise (trē'tĭs)
n.
A systematic, usually extensive written discourse on a subject.
Obsolete. A tale or narrative.
[Middle English treatis, from Anglo-Norman tretiz, alteration of treteiz, from Vulgar Latin *tractātīcius, from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractāre, to drag about, deal with. See treat.]




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noun

A formal, lengthy exposition of a topic: discourse, disquisition, dissertation. See words.



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Treatise

A scholarly legal publication containing all the law relating to a particular area, such as criminal law or land-use control.

Lawyers commonly use treatises in order to review the law and update their knowledge of pertinent case decisions and statutes.




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IN BRIEF: A formal exposition.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. — John Henry Newman (1801-1890)



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Answer 4

Either to an academic community or a class of professional practitioners in a given field or discipline on how that area of expertise was approached by the practitioner. As in ' to treat. '