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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16218	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.; Art of logike.	Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1617 (1617)	STC 3143; ESTC S115613	123,114	214

THE ARTE OF LOGICK Plainely taught in the English tongue according to the best approued AVTHORS Very necessary for all STVDENTS 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. BLVNDEVILE LONDON Printed by William Stansby and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes 1617. To the Reader MInding here to treate of the Art of Logike in our vulgar tongue for the profit of those my Country-men that are not learned in forreine tongues I thinke it no shame nor robbery to borrow termes of the said Art from the Latines aswell as they did from the Greekes and specially such termes as cannot be aptly expressed in our natiue speech and yet therewith I doe not forget plainly to shew the signification of cuery such terme so as euery man may easily vnderstand what each terme signifieth thinking it much better so to doe then to fayne new wordes vnproper for the purpose as some of late haue done And as my minde is hereby to please the vnlearned that are desirous of learning hauing both good wits and also good disposition with aptnesse to learne So my hope is not to offend the learned who I am sure doe well allow of Aristotle in saying that euery good thing the more common it be the better it is neither are they ignorant that in old time past aswell the Greekes as the Latines of what Art soeuer they wrote each one wrote the same for the most part in his owne vulgar speech Euery man is not able in these costly dayes to finde either himselfe or his Child at the Vniuersitie whom if God not withstanding hath indued with a liuely wit and made him so apt to learning as hauing some helpe at home he may by his owne industry attayne vnto right good knowledge be made thereby the more able to glorifie God and to profit his Countrey Truly I see no cause why the learned should disdayne or be miscontent that such Man or Child should be freely taught this or any other good Art without any cost or charge Wherefore arming my selfe with assured hope that with this my labour I shall greatly profit and pleasure the vnlearned and not hinder or displease the learned I will boldly follow mine enterprise and here briefly shew the order of my said Worke which is diuided into sixe Parts or Bookes for sith Logicke is chiefly occupyed in discussing of Questions and that such questions both simple and compound doe spring of wordes the first Part of my Booke shall treate of Wordes shewing which be Simple which be Compound and also which comprehend more and which comprehend lesse which be of affinitie and which be not leauing out no necessary Rules belonging thereunto that are taught either by Aristotle or by any other Moderne writer Secondly because all simple questions consisting of single wordes are to be discussed by Definition and Diuision the second Part treateth of them both and therewith sheweth also with what methode and order such simple questions are to be handled Thirdly because all compound questions are to be discussed by reasoning or argumentation and that euery kinde of argument doth consist of Propositions the third Part treateth of a Proposition and of all things belonging thereunto Fourthly because no sound argument can be made to proue or disproue any thing that is in question vnlesse the Disputer know from whence to fetch his proofes the fourth Part of my Booke treateth of all the places from whence any argument is to be fetched And the fifth Part treateth of Argumentation and of all the kindes thereof teaching how euery kinde is to be performed The sixt and last Part treateth of Confutation shewing how all Sophisticall arguments are to be confuted A Postscript THough I wrote this Booke many yeeres past whil'st I sojourned with my most deare Brother in Law M. William Hurnell a man of most singular humanitie and of great hospitalitie at his house in Winkborne in Nottinghamshire not farre from Southwell yet notwithstanding vpon diuers necessarie considerations as I thought since that time mouing me thereunto I still stayed it from the Presse vntill now of late that I was fully perswaded by diuers of my learned friends to put it in print who hauing diligently perused the same and liking my playne order of teaching vsed therein thought it a most necessary Booke for such Ministers as had not beene brought vp in any Vniuersitie to many of which Ministers though God had giuen the gift of vtterance and great good zeale to set forth in good speech the true Christian doctrine yet if they should haue to deale with subtill Sophisters and caueling Schismatikes whereof in these dayes the more is the pitty there are too many they were not able without the helpe of Logike to defend the truth of Gods Word and orderly to confute such false Conclusions as peruerse Schismatikes and Heretikes are wont to gather out of the very wordes of holy Scripture wherefore through my said friends perswasions I haue now at length committed my said Booke to the Presse praying all those that shall vouchsafe to reade it as thankefully to accept the same as of my part it is friendly offered Vale. The Contents of the Chapters contayned in these sixe Bookes of LOGICKE THE FIRST BOOKE Treating of a Question and of Wordes both Singular and Vniuersall WHat Logicke is of what parts it consisteth and whereto such parts doe serue Which be the two chiefe offices of Logicke and wherein Logicke is chiefly occupyed that is in discussing of Questions which is done by Definition Diuision and Argumentation Chap. 1. What a question is and that euery question is either simple or compound also of what parts a compound question consisteth that is to say of two parts called the Subiect and the Predicate and what those termes doe signifie Because all questions doe consist of wordes either simple or compound in this Chapter are set downe three principall diuisions of wordes First which be simple and which be compound Secondly which be of the first intention and which be of the second intention and thirdly which be singular called in Latine Indiuidua and which be universall Chap. 2. What Indiuiduum is and all the foure kindes thereof that is Indiuiduum determinatum Indiuiduum demonstratiuum Indiuiduum vagum and Indiuiduum ex hypothesi that is to say by supposition Chap. 3. Of universall wordes whereof some are called Predicables and some Predicaments and first of the fiue predicables that is Genus Species Differentia Proprium and Accidens and how euery one is diuided and to what vses they serue but first of Species and then of the rest Chap. 4. Of Predication and of the diuers kindes thereof Chap. 5. Of the ten Predicaments in generall which be these Substantia Quantitas Qualitas Relatio Actio Passio Vbi Quando Situm est and Habere Chap. 6. Of the fore-predicaments and shewing