Early English Books Online
 All Digital Collections  spacer  Login  
 
Add to bookbag
Author: Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.
Title: The arte of logick Plainely taught in the English tongue, according to the best approued authors. Very necessary for all students in any profession, how to defend any argument against all subtill sophisters, and cauelling schismatikes, and how to confute their false syllogismes, and captious arguments. By M. Blundevile.
Rights/Permissions: The University of Michigan Library provides access to these keyboarded and encoded editions of the works for educational and research purposes. These transcriptions are believed to be in the public domain in the United States; however, if you decide to use any of these transcriptions, you are responsible for making your own legal assessment and securing any necessary permission. If you have questions about the collection, please contact eebotcp-info@umich.edu. If you have concerns about the inclusion of an item in this collection, please contact LibraryIT-info@umich.edu. This statement does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Print source: The arte of logick Plainely taught in the English tongue, according to the best approued authors. Very necessary for all students in any profession, how to defend any argument against all subtill sophisters, and cauelling schismatikes, and how to confute their false syllogismes, and captious arguments. By M. Blundevile.
Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.
London: Printed by William Stansby, and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes, 1617.
Alternate titles: Art of logike.
Subject terms:
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16218.0001.001
How to cite: For suggestions on citing this text, please see Citing the TCP on the Text Creation Partnership website.

Table of Contents
View entire text
title page
To the Reader.
A Postscript.
The Contents of the Chapters contayned in these sixe Bookes of LOGICKE.
THE ART OF LOGICKE.
THE FIRST BOOKE.
CHAP. I.
Of the Art of Logicke, and of the parts and offices thereof.
WHat is Logicke?
Of what and how many parts doth it consist?
Whereto serue these parts?
What is the chiefe end or office of Logicke?
How is that to be done?
CHAP. II.
Of a question, and of certaine diuisions of words.
WHat is a question?
Which call you simple, and which compound?
Of what parts doth a compound question consist?
What meane you by these words, subiect and predicate?
How shall I know in long speeches, and specially being preposterously set, which is the Subiect, and which is the predicate?
Sith euery question doth consist of words, me thinks it were necessary to shew how words are diuided.
What is the second diuision of words?
Which are they?
What is the third diuision of words?
CHAP. III.
Of singular and most particular words, called Indiuidua.
WHat is Indiuiduum?
How many kindes of Indiuiduums be there?
What is Indiuiduum determinatum?
What is Indiuiduum demonstratiuum?
What is Indiuiduum vagum?
What is Indiuiduum ex hypothesi?
CHAP. IV.
Of words vniuersall or generall.
WHat words are said to be vniuersall or generall?
How are such words diuided?
Of the fiue Predicables.
WHat call you Predicables?
How many such be there?
Of the speciall kinde, called in Latine Species.
WHat is Species?
How manifold is Species?
How is species called of the Greekes?
Why are they said to be perpetuall?
Of the generall kinde, called Genus.
WHat is Genus?
How is it diuided?
What is genus most generall?
What is that which you call subalternate?
Of Difference, called of the Latines, Differentia.
WHat is difference?
How many kindes of differences be there?
What call you a common difference?
What is proper difference?
What is the most proper difference?
How manifold is the office of a Logicall difference?
What other diuision doe the Schoolemen make of this Logicall difference?
Of Property, called in Latine, Proprium.
WHat is propertie?
Shew how.
Of an accident, called in Latine, Accidens.
WHat is an accident?
What is a separable accident?
What is an vnseparable accident?
Of the manifold vses of the aforesaid fiue Predicables.
TO how many vses doe the Predicables serue?
Which call you necessarie, and which casuall?
When is a proposition said to be accidentall?
CHAP. V.
Of Predication, and of the diuers kindes thereof.
WHat is predication?
How many kindes of predications be there?
What is essentiall predication?
Which be they?
What is Identicall predication?
What is vnusuall predication?
What is predication accidentall?
CHAP. VI.
Of Predicaments.
WHat are Predicaments?
What other words are excluded from the order of Predicaments?
CHAP. VII.
Of Forepredicaments.
WHat meane you by forepredicaments?
What, and how many things defineth he?
What call you Equiuokes?
What call you Vniuokes?
What call you Denominatiues?
To what end doth Aristotle chiefly vse thse definitions?
What is Predication Equiuocall?
What is Predication Vniuocall?
What is Predication Denominatiue?
What, and how many diuisions be there?
Shew how.
What is the second diuision?
Whereto serueth this diuision?
Now tell how many, and what those rules bee, whereof you spake before▪
What is the second rule?
To what end serue these rules?
CHAP. VIII.
Of Substance.
WHat is substance? and how many kindes of substan∣ces be there?
What call you first substances?
Which call you second substances?
How many properties doe belong to substance?
CHAP. IX.
Of Quantitie.
WHat is quantitie, and how is it diuided?
What is whole quantitie?
How many kindes of whole quantitie be there?
Shew how they are defined and diuided.
How many kindes of this mouing be there, and which be they?
How is time diuided?
What is broken quantitie?
What is number, and how is it diuided?
What things are comprehended vnder broken quantitie?
How is speech here taken?
What, and how many properties doe belong to quantitie?
CHAP. X.
Of Qualitie.
WHat is qualitie?
How many kindes of qualitie be there?
What is habit, and how is it diuided?
What is morall habit, and how is it dinided?
Which call you theologicall or diuine?
What is habit of the bodie?
What is disposition, and how is it diuided?
Of naturall power and impotencie, the second kinde of Qualitie.
WHat is naturall power?
What is naturall impotencie?
What is comprehended vnder this second kinde of qualitie?
Of passion and passible qualitie, the third kinde of qualitie.
WHat doth the third kinde of qualitie comprehend?
What is passion?
What is passible qualitie?
What is comprehended vnder passible qualitie?
Which be the chiefe passions or affections of the minde?
How is ioy defined, and what good or euill branches doe spring thereof?
What is lust, and what affections doe spring thereof?
What is sorrow, and what affections doe arise thereof?
What is feare, and what affections doe rise thereof?
Why are these obiects of the senses called passible qualities?
Of figure and forme, the fourth kinde of qualitie.
WHat difference is betwixt figure and forme?
What doth this fourth kinde of qualitie comprehend?
Which call you perfect?
Which call you vnperfect?
Of the properties of qualitie.
HOw many properties doe belong to Qualitie?
What is the second propertie?
What is the third propertie?
How define you likenesse or vnlikenesse?
CHAP. XI.
Of Relation.
WHat is Relation?
Which call you absolute?
Which are said to be relatiue or respectiue?
How many kindes of Relatiues be there?
Which call you Relatiues indeed?
What call you Relatiues in name?
What other diuision is there of Relatiues?
Of the properties of Relation.
HOw many properties doe belong to Relation?
What is the second propertie?
What is the third propertie?
What is the fourth propertie?
What is the fift propertie?
CHAP. XII.
Of Action.
WHat is action?
What meane you here by this word subiect?
How is action diuided?
Is there no other diuision of action?
What doth this predicament comprehend?
How many properties doe belong to action?
CHAP. XIII.
Of Passion.
WHat is passion?
What doth this predicament comprehend?
What properties doe belong to passion?
CHAP. XIIII.
Of the Predicament Where, called in Latine, Vbi.
HOw define you the Predicament Vbi?
How is this predicament diuided?
When is it said to be simple?
When is it said to be compound?
What properties doe belong to the predicament, Where?
CHAP. XV.
Of the predicament When, called in Latine, Quando.
HOw define you this predicament?
How is Quando diuided?
What properties doe belong to this predicament?
CHAP. XVI.
Of the predicament, to be situated, called in Latine, Situm esse.
WHat is Situm esse?
How is site diuided of the Schoolemen?
Which call you naturall site?
What call you site casuall?
What descriptions are to be fetched from this predicament?
What properties doe belong to this predicament?
Which things doe alter their situation, and which not?
CHAP. XVII.
Of the predicament, To haue, called in Latine, Habere.
WHat doth this word to haue signifie?
What properties doe belong to this predicament?
CHAP. XVIII.
Of the vse of the Predicaments.
TO what vse or end doe these predicaments sere?
CHAP. XIX.
Of Post-predicaments.
WHat meane you by Post-predicaments?
Which are they?
What is opposition?
Is it all one, to be diuers, and contrarie?
How many waies are things said to be contrarie one to another?
Which things are said to be opposite or contrarie by relation?
Which things are said to be opposite by contrarietie?
How are contraries diuided?
When are they said to haue a meane?
When are they said to haue no meane?
Which are opposites by priuation?
Wherefore doe you adde this clause, at such time as nature doth ap∣point?
Which be opposite by contradiction?
Giue examples of both.
CHAP. XX.
Of before and after, called in Latine, Prius & Posterius.
HOw many waies is a thing said to be before and af∣ter?
Giue examples of euery one.
To what end serueth this manifold way of before and after?
CHAP. XXI.
Of the word Together, called in Latine, Simul.
HOw many waies are things said to be together?
CHAP. XXII.
Of Mouing or Motion, called in Latine, Motus, and of the kindes thereof.
WHerefore is mention made here of mouing?
How many kindes of motion or mouing be there?
Define these kindes.
CHAP. XXIII.
Of the word Habere, that is, to haue, and how many waies it is to be vnderstood.
HOw many significations hath this word, to haue? Eight.
THE ART OF LOGICKE. THE SECOND BOOKE.
CHAP. I.
Of Definition.
What is Definition, and how manifold is it?
What is definition of a name, and how manifold is it?
When is definition of the name needfull to be vsed?
Of the definition of a thing.
WHat is the definition of a thing?
How is the definition of a thing diuided?
What is definition essentiall?
When is it said to be a causall definition?
How many chiefe kindes of causes be there?
How define you matter?
What is Forme?
What is the cause efficient?
What is the end, or finall cause▪
Giue examples of definitions made of euery one of these causes.
May not a good definition be made of many of these causes ioined together?
Giue example.
When is a definition said to be made by the Relatiue?
When is a definition said to be made by the effects, vertues, or offi∣ces of the thing defined?
When is a definition said to be made by numbering vp of the parts?
Giue examples of both these waies.
When is a definition said to be made by heaping vp of accidents?
CHAP. II.
Of the precepts to be obserued in Definition.
HOw many precepts are to be obserued in making a true definition?
What order is to be obserued in making a dialecticall definition?
CHAP. III.
Of Diuision.
WHat is Diuision?
When is it said to be the diuision of a name?
How manifold is the diuision of a thing?
When is it properly said to be substantiall?
When is this kinde of diuision to be vsed?
What call you a partible diuision?
First, I pray you tell what you meane by whole substantiall, and whole integrall.
How define you substantiall parts?
Which be called integrall parts?
Which are similar, and which dissimilar?
Which call you dissimilar or vnlike?
Wherein doth partition and diuision differ?
How manifold is diuision accident all?
Giue examples of all these three waies.
CHAP. IIII.
Of the precepts to be obserued in Diuision.
HOw many precepts are to be obserued in making a true diuision?
What is the second precept?
What is the third precept?
To what end serueth Diuision?
CHAP. V.
Of Method.
What is Method?
What is method compositiue?
What is method resolutiue?
What is that method?
The effect of Accontius his booke, de methodo, which he affirmeth to be the second part or office of Logicke.
question and answer
Giue example of a simple question handled according to the nine questions before recited.
What method is to be obserned in handling a compound question?
THE ART OF LOGICKE. THE THIRD BOOKE.
CHAP. I.
Of a Proposition.
WHat is a Proposition?
Whereof is such speech specially com∣pounded?
Of how many parts doth a Proposition consist?
What is the Copulat?
How many waies is a proposition diuided?
What is an absolute categoricall proposition?
How is a simple proposition diuided according to qualitie?
When is it said to be affirmatiue, and when negatiue?
How many waies is a simple proposition diuided according to quan∣titie?
When is it said to be vniuersall?
Which words are said to be vniuersall signes?
When is it said to be a particular proposition?
Which call you particular signes?
When is it said to be indefinite?
When is it said to be singular?
What, and how many questions doe rise of these three diuisions?
CHAP. II.
Of the three properties belonging to a simple proposition.
WHich are those?
What is Opposition?
How many kindes of opposite propositions be there?
Which are said to be Contrarie?
Which are said to be Subcontrarie?
Which are said to be Contradictorie?
Which are said to be Subalternat?
CHAP. III.
Of the Lawes and conditions belonging to these foure kindes of oppo∣sites before recited: and of the diuers matter of a Proposition.
How manifold is that matter?
When is a proposition said to consist of matter naturall?
When is a proposition said to consist of matter contingent?
When is a proposition said to consist of matter remote or vnnaturall?
What are the lawes of contrarie propositions?
What are the lawes of subcontrarie propositions?
What be the lawes of contradictorie propositions?
What be the lawes of sub alternat propositions?
What good is to be reaped by the knowledge of these opposites?
CHAP. IIII.
Of the equiualencie of simple propositions.
WHat is equiualencie?
How is such reconciliation made?
Giue example.
CHAP. V.
Of conuersion of simple propositions.
WHat is conuersion?
How manifold is such conuersion?
What is simple conuersion?
What propositions are conuerted by this manner of conuersion?
Giue examples of both.
What is conuersion by accident?
What propositions are conuerted this way?
Giue examples.
What is conuersion by contraposition?
Which call you termes infinite?
What propositions are conuerted this manner of way?
Giue examples.
CHAP. VI.
Of a Modall Proposition.
WHat is a modall proposition?
What is a mood?
How manifold is a modall proposition?
When is it said to be Coniunct?
When is it said to be Disiunct?
What maketh them so to doe, sith by construction these two speeches in sense doe seeme to be all one?
CHAP. VII.
Of the proposition, equiualencie, and conuersion of modall propositions.
CHAP. VIII.
Of the opposition of Modals.
HOw many waies are modall propositions said to be op∣posite?
CHAP. IX.
Of the equiualencie and conuersion of modall propositions.
CHAP. X.
Of a compound or hypotheticall proposition.
WHat is a compound proposition?
How manifold is it?
When is it said to be conditionall?
When is it said to be copulatiue?
When is it said to be disiunctiue?
Of how many parts doth a compound proposition consist?
Which call you the antecedent?
What things are to be considered in hypotheticall propositions?
How is that Contradiction to be vnderstood?
CHAP. XI.
Of the truth and falshood of Hypotheticall propositions, and first, of the Conditionall.
WHat is to be considered, to know the truth or falshood of Conditionall Propositions?
How is the truth of the negatiue Proposition to be knowne?
Of the truth and falshood of propositions copulatiue.
WHen is a copulatiue Proposition said to be true or false?
What kinde of propositions are wont to bee referred to this co∣pulatiue?
Of the truth and falshoode of disiunctiues.
WHat belongeth properly to disiunctiue Propositions?
THE ART OF LOGICKE. THE FOVRTH BOOKE.
CHAP. I.
Of Places.
What is a place?
What difference is betwixt Argument and Argumentation?
How manifold is Place?
To what end serueth this manifold diuision?
How is Place diuided according to the Schoolemen?
What is Maxim?
What is the difference of Maxims?
To what end serueth this diuision?
CHAP. II.
Of the Places of Persons.
Glue examples of all the Places of persons.
Of the name.
Of the stocke or birth.
Of the nation.
Of the sex or kinde.
Of the age.
Of education.
Of the habit of the body.
Of the affections of the minde.
Of the state, calling, or condition of life.
Of dyet.
Of studie or exercise.
Of things done.
Of death.
Of things chancing after death.
CHAP. III.
Of the Places of things, and first of artificiall Places.
Which be the Places of Substance?
Of Definition and the thing defined.
WHat is Definition?
How my a man reason from this place?
What be the or generall rules of this Place?
What is the thing defined?
How may a man reason from this place?
What be the Maxims of this Place?
Of Description, and the thing described.
WHat is Description?
How may a man reason from this Place?
What is the thing described?
How are arguments to be fetched from this Place?
When are arguments to be confuted, being fetohed frō these places?
Of Interpretation and the thing interpreted.
WHat is Interpretation?
What is the thing interpreted?
How may a man reason from this place?
What be the maxims of these two places?
Of the Place of Matter, and of the thing made.
WHat is Matter?
How is Matter diuided?
What is Matter permanent?
What is Matter transient?
How are arguments to be fetched from Matter permanent?
How are arguments to be fetched from Matter transient?
What be the Maxims of this Place?
How may we reason from the thing made to the matter?
What be the Maxims of this Place?
How may you else reason from these two Places?
Of the Places of Forme and shape.
WHat is Forme?
How is Forme diuided?
How are arguments to be fetched from the Forme and the thing formed?
Rehearse the Maxims whereupon these arguments are grounded.
Of the generall kinde.
WHat is generall kinde?
How are Arguments to be fetched from the generall kinde to the speciall kinde?
Rehearse the Maxims belonging to the generall kinde?
How many Places doth this Place of generall kinde comprehend?
What is All or euery in quantitie?
When is it all or euery respect?
Giue examples of this place.
What is all or euery in place?
What is all or euery in time?
What maxims doe belong to these places?
Of the speciall kind.
HOw are arguments to be fetched from the speciall kinde to the generall kinde?
What be the maximes belonging to the speciall kinde?
Of the place of Difference.
How may a man reason from this place?
What be the maximes in this place?
Of the place of Propertie.
HOw may a man reason from this place?
What be the maxims of this place?
Of the place of whole Integrall.
WHat is whole Integrall?
How may we reason from the whole to euery particular part?
What be the maxims of this place?
Of the place of Integrall parts.
WHat is an Integrall part, and how is it diuided?
Define these two parts?
How may we reason from the principall part to the whole?
What be the maxims of this place?
Of the places of things accompanying Substance.
WHat is the place of things accompanying Substance?
Which be those places?
Of the place of Generation, and of the thing engendred.
WHat is Generation?
How are arguments to be fetched from Generation to the thing engendred?
What be the Maxims of this place?
How may we reason from the thing engendred to the Generation?
What be the maxims of this place?
Of Corruption, and the thing Corrupted.
WHat is Corruption?
How may we reason from Corruption, to the thing Corrupted?
How may we reason from the thing Corrupted, to the Corruption?
What be the maxims of these two places?
Of Vse.
WHat is vse?
How may we reason from this place?
What be the maxims of this place?
What is to be obserued in this kind of reasoning?
Whereto serue most chiefly these three places last mentioned (that is to say) the place of Generation, of Corruption, and of Use?
Of the Subiect.
HOw is this word Subiect here taken?
How may we reason from this place?
Which be the Maxims of this place?
How may such arguments as are fetched out of this place be con∣futed;
Of Adiacents and Actions.
Of Apposition.
WHat is Apposition?
How may a man reason from this place?
What bee the Maxims of this place?
Of common Accidents.
WHat cast yee common Accidents?
How may we reason from the Necessarie?
What be the maxims of this place?
Of Probable Accidents, Coniectures, Presumptions, Signes, and Circumstances.
HOw may we reason from Probable Accidents?
What be the maxims of this place?
Whereto serueth the place of common Accidents?
Of Time.
HOw are arguments fetched from time?
What be the Maxims of this place?
Of Place.
HOw are arguments fetched from place?
What is the maxime of this place?
Of outward Places, and first of Causes.
WHich be outward Places?
What is a Cause?
How many chiefe kindes of Causes be there?
Of the Cause Efficient.
WHat is that cause Efficient, and how is it deuided?
How may we reason from the Efficient Cause to the Effect?
What be the maxims of this Place?
How may we reason from the Effect, to the Cause Efficient?
What be the Maximes of this place?
When doe Arguments fetched from this place faile?
Of the End.
WHat is End, and how is it diuided?
How may we reason from this place?
What be the Maximes of this place?
Tell the vse of these places of Causes, and whereto they serue?
Of Opposites.
WHat be Opposites?
How many kindes of Opposites be there?
And first of Relatiues.
WHen are things said to be Opposites by Relation?
How may we reason from this place?
What be the Maximes of this place?
What is to be obserued in fetching Arguments from this place?
Of Contraries.
WHat be Contraries, and how are they diuided?
How may we reason from these two kindes?
What be the Maximes of this place?
Of Priuatiues.
WHat be Priuatiues?
How may we reason from this place?
What be the maxims of this place?
Of Contradictories.
WHat be Contradictories?
How may we reason from this place?
What is the Maxime of this place?
Of things differing in kinde, called of the La∣tines Disparata.
WHat be they?
How may we reason from this place?
What be the Maximes of this place?
What is to be obserued in reasoning from all these kindes of Op∣posites?
Of Comparison.
HOw may we reason from the place of Comparison?
Of the More.
THese two words, More or lesse, how are they to be taken?
How may we reason from the More to the Lesse?
What is the Maxime of this place?
Of the Lesse.
HOw may we reason from the Lesse to the More?
What is the Maxime of this place?
What is to be obserued in reasoning from these two places?
Of Like and Unlike.
HOw may we reason from Like to Like?
What is the Maxime of this place?
Of Example.
How may we reason from this place?
Of Unlike.
HOw may we reason from this place?
What is the Maxime of this place?
Of the degrees of Comparison.
From the Comparatiue to the Positiues.
HOw may we reason from the Comparatiue to the Positiue?
What is the Maxime of this place?
From the Positiue to the Comparatiue.
HOw may we reason from the Positiue to the Comparatiue?
What is the Maxime of this place?
From two Positiues to two Comparatiues and two Superlatiues.
HOw may we reason from two Positiues, to two Comparatiues, and to two Superlatiues at once, and contrarily?
What is to be obserued in reasoning from these degrees of Compa∣rison?
Of Proportion.
WHen are we said to reason from the place of Proportion?
What is the Maxime of this place?
Whereto serueth this place?
Of Changed Proportion.
WHat is changed Proportion?
What meane you by these two words, Foundation and Termes?
Giue Examples of reasoning from this place.
Why is this Proportion said to be changed or transposed?
Of Disproportion.
HOw may we reason from this place?
What is the Maxime of this place?
From Disproportion changed or transposed.
HOw may we reason from this place?
What be the Maximes of this place?
To whom are these places most familiar?
Of Translation.
WHat is Translation?
What be the Maximes of this place?
Of Meane places.
WHat be meane Places?
How are Meane Places diuided?
And first of Coniugates and Cases.
WHat be Coniugates or Cases?
Why, wherein doe they differ?
How may we reason from these two places?
What is the maxim of these two places?
Of Diuision.
WHat is Diuision?
How may we reason from diuision?
What is the Maxim of this first way of reasoning?
What is the second way of reasoning from Diuision?
What is the Maxim of this way of reasoning?
Of inartisiciall places.
Of Authoritie.
HOw is Authority here to be taken?
How may we reason from this place?
What be the Maxims of this place?
And first of Fore-iudgements or Ruled Cases.
VVHat call you Fore-iudgements or Ruled Cases?
How may a man confirme or impugne Fore-iudgements?
Of Rumor and Fame.
VVHat difference is betwixt Rumor and Fame?
Of Torture.
VVHat is Torture?
How is this place to be confirmed or impugned?
Of Writings and Euidences.
VVHat is meant by Writings?
How is this place to be impugned?
Of Oathes.
VVHat is an Oath?
How is this place to be confirmed or impugned?
Of Witnesses.
VVHat be Witnesses?
To what end serueth the knowledge of places?
The Theame or Proposition.
What arguments are to be gathered on the behalfe of the subiect of this Proposition?
From the Etymologie.
Logically thus:
From the Matter.
Logically thus.
From the forme or shape of Man.
Logically thus:
From the generall kinde.
Logically thus:
From the speciall kinde.
Logically thus:
From the common Accidents.
Logically thus:
From the cause efficient.
Logically thus:
From the End.
Logically thus:
What arguments are to be gathered on the behalfe of the Predi∣cate, and from what places?
From the Definition of the Predicate.
Logically thus:
From the Description.
Logically thus:
From the Etymologie.
Logically thus:
From the generall Kinde.
Logically thus:
From the speciall Kinde.
Logically thus:
From the corruption of the Subiect.
Logically thus:
From the vse of the Subiect.
Logically thus:
From common Accidents.
Logically thus:
From the cause Efficient.
Logically thus:
From the Effect.
Logically thus:
From the End.
Logically thus:
Hitherto you haue shewed how the aforesaid Theme is to be pro∣ued with Arguments fetched aswell from the Subiect as the Predi∣cate: now shew what Arguments are to be fetched from both ioyned together?
From the Lesse to the More.
Logically thus:
From Similitude or Likenesse.
Logically thus:
From Authoritie.
Logically thus:
THE FIFT BOOKE OF LOGICKE.
CHAP. I.
Of Argumentation, and of the foure kindes thereof in gene∣rall, and also of the first Principles of a Syllogisme.
Which call you Materiall Principles?
Why are they called Termes or limits?
Which be the Principles regulatiue?
What is to be spoken of all?
What is to be spoken of none?
Which be they?
Whereto serue these rules?
CHAP. II.
Of a Syllogisme, what it is, how it is diuided; and of what parts it consisteth.
WHat is a Syllogisme?
How is a Syllogisme diuided according to the Schoolemen?
When is it said to be perfect?
When is it said to be vnperfect?
Of how many parts doth a simple Syllogisme consist?
CHAP. III.
Of the Matter and Forme of a simple com∣mon Syllogisme.
WHat things are said to bee the Matter of a Syllo∣gisme?
Define what these three Termes be?
What is the Meane terme?
How is such proofe to be found out?
Giue examples of all these foure wayes.
Which be the three Propositions whereof a Syllogisme doth con∣sist?
Which call you the Maior?
Which call you the Minor?
What is the Conclusion?
Giue example.
CHAP. IIII.
Of the Forme of a Syllogisme.
question and answer
What is ameode?
How many moodes doe belong to the first figure?
What is to conclude directly or indirectly?
How many moodes doe belong to the second figure?
How many moodes doe belong to the third Figure?
What is to be considered in these words of Art or Moods?
Which are those Vowels, and what doe they signifie?
Which be the Consonants, and what doe they signifie?
In the meane time, then giue examples of the Moods belonging to all the Figures?
CHAP. V.
Of certaine Rules, as well Generall, as Speciall, belonging to the three Figures.
HOw many Generall Rules be there, which are com∣mon to all the three Figures?
Which is the first of those that belong to quātity?
Why so?
Which is the second Rule that belongeth to quantitie?
Why so?
What is the first Rule belonging to qualitie?
Why so?
Which is the second Rule belonging to qualitie?
Why so?
Which be the speciall Rules belonging to the three Figures?
CHAP. VI.
Examples of the foure perfect Moods belonging to the first Figure.
CHAP. VII.
Examples of the fiue vnperfect Moods of the first Figure.
Glue examples of the fiue Moods of the first Fi∣gure directly concluding.
CHAP. VIII.
Of the foure Moods belonging to the se∣cond Figure.
GIue examples of the foure Moodes belonging to the second Figure.
CHAP. IX.
Of the sixe Moods belonging to the third Figure.
GIue examples of the sixe Moodes belonging to the third Figure.
CHAP. X.
Of a Syllogisme expositorie.
CHAP. XI.
An obiection concerning the three Figures, and Moodes belonging to the same.
question and answer
CHAP. XII.
Of Reduction, and of the kindes thereof, and also of the signi∣fication of certaine consonants in the words of Art seruing to Reduction.
WHat is Reduction?
How manfold is such Reduction?
What is Reduction offensiue?
What meane yee by transposing of the premisses, for as touching conuersion ye haue spoken thereof before, lib. 3. cap. 6.
What is Reduction by impossibilitie?
Which be the other foure Consonants, and what doe they signifie?
Giue examples, and shew how such Reduction is to be made.
CHAP. XIII.
Of Reduction by Impossiblitie.
HOw is Reduction by impossibilitie made?
Giue examples.
To which of the perfect Moodes is euery vnperfect Moode to bee reduced by impssibilitie?
Which be those words?
CHAP. XIIII.
Of Syllogismes made in oblique Cases, and of the sixe Habili∣ties, and three defects of a Syllogisme.
WHat meane you by oblique Cases?
CHAP. XV.
Of a compound Syllogisme, and of the diuers kindes thereof.
WHat is a compound Syllogisme, and how many kinds thereof bee there?
Of how many parts doth a compound Syllogisme consist?
How is the trueth of a compound Syllogisme to be sound out?
Are there no other kindes of compound Syllogismes?
Which is the first way?
Which is the secondway?
Which is the third way?
Which is the fourth way?
Which is the fift way?
Which is the sixt way?
Which is the seuenth way?
CHAP. XVI.
Of a Consequent, and by what meanes and rules the good∣nesse thereof is to be knowne.
What is a Consequent?
How many parts are requisite in a Consequent?
How is it diuided?
When is it said to be Formall?
When is it said to be Materiall?
Whereupon doth the goodnesse of a Consequent chiefely de∣pend?
How else shall a man know whether a Consequent bee good or not?
What rules doe the Schoole-men set downe to know a good Conse∣quent?
CHAP. XVII.
Of a Syllogisme Demonstratiue.
What is a Syllogisme Demonstratiue?
What meane yee by necessary and immediate Propositions?
What be immediate Propositions?
Which be those Properties?
What is to be spoken of all?
What is to be spoken by it selfe?
What is to be spoken vniuersally?
How doth Aristotle define Demonstration?
What is Science?
What is to know?
Giue example of a Syllogisme Demonstratiue.
CHAP. XVIII.
Of the certaintie of Mans knowledge.
WHereof dependeth the certaintie of Mans know∣ledge?
What is vniuersall experience?
What be Principles?
How doth Aristotle define Principles?
How many Diuisions doe the Schoole-men make Principles?
Rehearse those Diuisions.
Wherefore are they called Dignities or Maximes?
What be Positions?
Define these kindes.
What is the third thing wherof the certaintie of mans knowledge dependeth?
CHAP. XIX.
Of the two kindes of Demonstration.
HOw doe the Schoolemen diuide Demonstration?
What is to be obserued in a perfect Demonstration?
When is it said to be an vnperfect Demonstration?
CHAP. XX.
Of Science, Opinion, Ignorance, Witte, and of the foure Sciencial questions.
WHat other things are wont to bee treated of by the Schoolemen in demonstration?
What difference is betwixt Science and opinion?
How many kindes of Ignorance doe the Schoolemen make?
How doth Aristotle define prompt Witte, called of the Latines Solertia?
Which be the foure Sciential questions?
CHAP. XXI.
Of a Syllogisme Dialecticall.
WHat is a Dialecticall Syllogisme?
What things are said to be probable?
Shew how.
What doth Materia remota containe?
What is contained vnder Materia propinqua?
What difference is betwixt these three words, Dialecticall Pro∣position, Probleme, and Position?
CHAP. XXII.
Of a sophisticall Syllogisme.
WHat is a Sophisticall or false Syllogisme?
When is it said to faile in matter?
When is it said to faile in forme?
When is it said to faile both in matter and forme?
Is there no other kindes of false Syllogismes?
CHAP. XXIII.
Of Induction.
WHat is Induction?
What is to be obserued in this kind of reasoning?
How manifold is Induction?
Giue example of Induction.
Giue example of an Induction proceeding from the speciall kinds to their generall kinds?
Which of these two kindes of reasoning, eyther an Induction or a Syllogisme is most familiar and easie to man?
CHAP. XXIIII.
Of an Enthimeme.
WHat is an Enthimeme?
How shall a man know when the Maior or Minor is left out?
From whence are such kindes of Arguments gathered?
CHAP. XXV.
Of an Example.
WHat is an Example?
Wherein differeth this kinde of Argument from the rest?
Whereto serues this kinde of reasoning by Example?
What is to be obserued in reasoning by way of Example?
From whence is this kinde of argument fetched?
CHAP. XXVI.
Of the Argument called Sorites.
WHat is Sorites?
When is this kinde of Argument said to be of force?
CHAP. XXVII.
Of diuers other kindes of Arguments, and first of a Di∣lemma, and what kindes it compre∣hendeth.
What is Dilemma?
What other iutricate kindes of reasoning are said to be compre∣hended vnder Dilemma?
Define all these kindes, and giue examples.
How are the Fallaxes of these captious Arguments to be found out?
CHAP. XXVIII.
Of Enumeration.
WHat is Enumeration?
When is this kind of argument to be confuted?
CHAP. XXIX.
Of a simple Conclusion.
WHat is a simple Conclusion?
CHAP. XXX.
Of Subiection.
WHat is Subiection?
CHAP. XXXI.
Of Opposition.
WHat is Opposition?
CHAP. XXXII.
Of Violation.
WHat is Uiolation?
THE SIXT BOOKE OF LOGICKE.
CHAP. I.
Of Confutation.
Shew when these three wayes are to be vsed.
Giue Examples.
When is distinction to be vsed?
Giue examples of both.
When is confutation by instance vsed?
Giue example.
CHAP. II.
Of speciall confutation.
WHat is speciall confutation?
What order do h Aristotle obserue in treating of speciall Confu∣tation?
How defineth he an Elench or Reprehension?
CHAP. III.
Of Disputation: and how manifolde it is.
Giue examples of all these foure kindes?
CHAP. IIII.
Of the fiue Markes and Endes of Sophistrie.
Giue example of all these fiue Markes.
CHAP. V.
How to confute all manner of Elenches, or Fallaxes whatsoeuer they be.
Which be those sixe that consist in words?
Shew what these Fallaxes be, and giue examples?
CHAP. VI.
Of the Fallaxes in things.
Define what these be, and giue examples.
Which be those foure points?
Yet I pray you to giue examples of the foure chiefe points before mentioned.
Giue example of these three wayes.
Giue examples of both these wayes.