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Author: Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.
Title: The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique, set forth in Englishe, by Thomas Vuilson
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Print source: The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique, set forth in Englishe, by Thomas Vuilson
Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.
[Imprinted at London: By Richard Grafton, printer to the Kynges Maiestie], An. M.D.LI. [1551]
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Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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¶To the most excellent Prince, and our most redoubted souereigne Lord Edward the sixt, by the grace of God Kyng of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, Defendour of the faith, and of the Churches of En∣gland, and Irelande, in yearth the su∣preme heade, your moste faithfull and obedient subiect Thomas Vvilson wisheth long life with moste prospe∣rouse Reigne.
GVALTERVS HADDONVS Cantabrigiensis, Legum Doctor.
The Arte of Logique.
The diuision of Logique.
A brief declaration in meter, of the vij, liberal artes, vvherin Logique is comprehended as one of them.
¶The difference betwene Logique and Sophistry.
The difference betwene Logique and Rethorique.
The Office of Logique.
Of Questions.
¶Of the iue Predicables, otherwise called the fiue common wordes, which are spoken of other
subpart
¶The vse and commodite, which we hau by these fiue commune wordes cal∣led otherwise Predicables.
¶Of the Predicamentes, called in En∣glishe Generall wordes.
¶A note of certaine thynges diligently to b obserued before the rehersal of the most generall wordes.
The Predicamentes are in number .10.
¶The diuision of the Sub∣stance.
¶Of quantitee.
¶Quantitee is .ii. waies considered.
¶Of qualite.
¶The table of qualitie.
¶Of Relatiues.
The table of the Relatiues.
¶The maner of doyng, in latin called. Actio.
Perpessio called in Englishe a sufferynge.
Vbi. Where.
Quando. When.
Situm esse, to be settled.
Habitus, the araiyng or clothyng.
¶The vse and commoditie of these Predicamentes.
Of a diffinition.
O a diuision.
What a diuision is.
¶Rules necessarie to be obserued in euerie diuision.
¶The maner of handeling a single Que∣stion, nd the readie waie howe to teache and sette forth any thyng plainlie, and in or∣der, as it should be, in latine Methodus.
¶Of a proposition.
¶What a Proposition is.
The second diuision of a Proposition.
¶The third deuision of a Proposition.
The repunaunce of Propositions
¶A single Poposicion, is thre waies denided.
De Conuersione, of the turnyng of Propositions.
Propositio Hypothetica, that is to say a double Proposition.
¶There be .iii. maner of double Propositions.
Of makyng an Argument.
¶What an argument is.
¶To finde out the reason, that shall proue, (in Latine) called medium, (in Englishe) the double repete.
¶There be foure kyndes of argumentes.
¶There be .vi. Rules, especially to bee obserued, for the makyng of n ar∣gument called Syllogismus.
¶The seond rule.
¶The third rule.
¶The fift Rule.
¶The sixt Rule.
¶The seuenth Rule.
Of an halfe argument called Enthimema.
¶An other.
¶Of an Argument, called Syllogismus Expositorius.
Inductio.
¶An other Example.
¶An other Example.
De Exemplo.
¶Sorites.
¶An other.
¶Or thus.
¶Thus merie fellowes reason when they are at nale.
¶A horned Argument, called Dilemma.
De Consequentiis.
¶The frst rule.
¶The second rule.
¶e third rule.
¶The fourth rule.
¶The .v. rule.
Of the secōd part of Logique, called Inuentio, that is to saie, the fyn∣dyng out of an argument.
¶What a place is.
¶The diuision of the places, whiche are .xxii. in nomber.
¶Of the difinicion.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng
¶The vse.
Of the generall worde.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyg.
¶The vse.
Of the kynde.
Of the kynde
The general rule.
The maner o reasonyng.
The vse.
Of the diffrence and proprtye.
The general rule.
The maner of reasonyng.
The vse.
Of the whole and the partes.
The general rule.
The maner of reasonyng.
The vse.
The general rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶The vse.
¶Of woordes yoked together.
¶The generall Rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶The vse.
¶Of wordes adioyned to the substaunce and yet not of the substaunce.
¶The generall Rule.
¶The maner of reasonynng.
¶The vse.
¶Of dedes done, or suffred to be done, called Actus.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng from this place.
¶The Use.
¶Of the thyng tonteynyng.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶An other.
¶The Use.
¶Of outward places beyng not in the sub∣staunce, but only touching the substaūce, and without the nature of it.
¶The deuision of causs.
¶The deinition of a very cause.
¶The generall rule.
¶The enerall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶Another diuision of auses efficient.
¶Another duison of causes efficient.
¶Another diuision.
¶The ende, called. Finis.
¶The general rule.
¶Of th matr or substance, called, Materia.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng
The shape called Forma.
The general rule.
Thynges comyng after the cau∣ses, called Euen•a.
¶From the effect of the matter or sub∣staunce, called Materia, thus ye maye reason.
From the effect of the fourme.
From the effecte of the effcent cause.
The genral rule.
The maner of reasonyng.
The thyng apointed for some nde.
The generall rule.
The maner of reasonyng lawfullye.
The v of all these causes.
Of thynges outwardly applied, called Applici•a.
The maner of reasonyng.
¶Of wordes annexed, or knitte to the substaunce, called Connexa.
¶Of Accidentes.
¶Thinges chauncyng called Contingentia.
¶The diuersitie of thre diuerse places.
¶The diuiion of thynges chauncyng.
¶The name of a thyng, or the inter∣pretation of a worde.
¶The generall Rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶Of the place called authoritie, other∣wise named sentences of the sage.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶Of the similitude, or likenesse.
¶The maner of findyng out a similitude.
¶The genrall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶Of thynges compared.
¶The generall rule.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶The vse.
¶Of repugnauncie.
¶The euision.
¶Of discordantes, called Opposita.
¶There be .iiii. of th sort.
¶The generall rule.
¶The general rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyg.
¶Sentences gainsaiyng, other¦wise called, contradiccion.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
¶The vse.
¶Of wordes differyng.
¶The generall rule.
¶The maner of reasonyng.
The definition.
The general rule.
The kynde.
Wordes yoked.
Adiacentes necessarily ioyned.
Adiacentes adioyned casually.
Dedes necessary.
The thyng conteynyng.
The efficient cause.
The second efficient cause.
The ende of a magistrate.
The effecte, or els thynges done by a Magistrate.
The authoritie.
Thynges incdent.
¶Similitudes.
¶Thynges compared.
¶From the definition.
¶From the generall worde.
¶From the kynde.
¶From the Propertie.
¶The whole.
¶The partes.
¶Thynges yoked together.
¶Thynges cleauyng, or adioyned to the substaunce.
¶Dedes done.
¶The thyng conteynyng.
¶The matier.
¶The shappe, or forme.
¶The efficient cause.
¶The ende.
¶Thinges done by vertue of the cause.
¶What is appointed to hym, and propre to this reasonyng.
¶The place.
¶The time.
¶Thynges annexed.
¶The definition.
¶The generall worde.
¶The kynde.
¶The propertie.
¶The whole.
¶The partes.
¶Wordes ioyned.
¶Wordes adioyned.
¶Dedes done.
¶The thyng conteynyng.
¶The matier, and forme.
¶The efficient cause.
The ende.
The effecte.
Thynges apointed for some ende.
The place.
The tyme.
Wordes anned or knitte together.
From the similitude.
From authoritie.
From comparison of the lesse, to the greater.
From the greater to the lesse.
Of discordantes.
From the Priuation.
From the relaion.
¶From wordes differyng
Or thus.
¶The generall worde.
¶The kynde.
¶The difference.
¶The propretie.
¶The partes of fayth.
¶Thynes adioyned to faith, and also thynges annexed to ayth.
¶The thyng contenyng.
¶The efficient cause.
¶The ende of fayth.
¶Contraries.
¶The places of false conclusions, or deceipt∣full reasons.
¶The maner of confutacion twoo waies considered.
¶Deceitpfull argumentes.
¶An example.
¶An other example.
¶The second subtiltie, called Ambiguitas.
¶The thirde decepteful argument.
¶Of partyng wordes that should be ioyned together.
¶An other example.
¶The fifte place.
¶There be .vii. in nombre.
¶The first deceipt.
¶Another argument.
¶The Anabaptistes reason thus.
¶Another.
¶The seconde.
¶Agayne.
¶An other argument.
An other argument made by the Anabaptistes.
¶The signe is often tymes turned into the thyng it selfe, as I reher∣sed before.
The prson.
The tyme.
The place.
The maner of comparyng.
The .iii. deceipt.
An other argument.
¶An othr Argument.
¶The .iiii. deceipt.
¶The .v. deceipt.
¶The syxt deceit.
The .vii. deceipt.
Of particular auoydyng false argume∣es whiche are deryued from the places.
False casons made through the euil framyng of an argument.
Of obiections made to an argument.
¶Or thus.
¶Or thus.
¶Crocodilites.
¶Antistrephon.
Ceratinae.
Cacosistata.
Asistata.
Vtis.
¶Pseudomenos.
An admoni∣tion to the reader for faultes escaped in the Printyng.
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