Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	air_n	cold_a	heat_n	1,490	5	8.2077	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52266	An introduction to the art of logick composed for the use of English schools, and all such who having no opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ...	Newton, John, 1622-1678.	1671 (1671)	Wing N1063; ESTC R20761	67,588	216

degrees as equal and unequal and whatever may be said to be more or less and equal All which have their several Rules or Canons Concerning Relative opposition the Canon is One of the relates being granted the other is granted also and one being taken away the other is taken away also as if there be a son there is a father c. This rule faileth 1. In accidental relations as it being granted that there is something knowable it doth not follow that there is a knowledge of it 2. If it be understood of the same subject as he which is the father of this man may not not not be at all but it is impossible that he should be the son of him of whom he is the father Concerning contrary opposition the Canons are these following 1. One of the contraries being granted the other is taken away as if water be warm it cannot be cold This rule faileth in remiss qualities for the water which is hot to six degrees is cold to two because the remission of quality is alwaies by admission of the contrary 2. One of the contraries being taken away the other doth remain as if water be not dry it is moist This rule faileth 1. In mediate contraries as Honey is neither white nor black but yellow 2. In an uncapable subject as a soul is neither white nor black nor hot nor cold 3. Contraries have the same Genus and subject as if white be a colour black is a colour also if love be a concupiscible faculty so is hatred This rule never fails 4. Contraries have contrary causes effects properties and next subjects as if grief be to be avoided pleasure is to be followed and if cold congeals heat dissolves This rule faileth 1. in the predications of a Genus or a Generical affection as because whiteness is a colour or visible it doth not follow that blackness is not a colour 2. If the nature of the subject will not bear it as because health is agreeable to living creatures it doth not follow that diseases are agreeable to things without life but rather the contrary 3. In causes by accident for if a good man doth love and defend his children it doth not follow that a wicked man must therefore hate and destroy his because to love his children is not so much from vertue as nature 4. In causes whose action is determined by the disposition of the matter for cold doth not therefore soften dirt because heat doth make it hard 5. The contrary of a greater good is a greater evil and the contrary as because that health is better than riches therefore sickness is worse than poverty This rule faileth where one of the good things is included in the other or supposed by it as it is more advantageous to be a Philosopher than to know letters but yet of the two Philosophy may be best spared The Canons of privative opposition are these two 1. The habit being granted privation is taken away and the contrary as if a man doth see he is not blind if he be blind he doth not see And this rule never faileth 2. The habit being taken away privation is granted and the contrary as he doth not see therefore he is blind He is not blind therefore he doth see This rule faileth 1. in an incapable subject as a stone doth not see and yet it is not blind 2. In a capable subject before the time in which it is capable and therefore though a whelp doth not see untill it be nine days old yet cannot it be said to be blind Of contradictory opposition there is one only never failing Canon One of the contradictories being granted the other is taken away and one being taken away the other is granted as if a wall be white it cannot be said to be not white if it be not white it cannot be said to be white The Disparates have but one Canon One of the Disparates being granted the rest are taken away as if Socrates be a man then he is neither a bull nor a stone This rule faileth in accidents when they are attributed unto subjects in the concrete for the same mess may be white and sweet The Canons of like and unlike proportional and unproportional are these Like and proportional do agree with like and proportionals dislike and unproportional do agree with dislike and unproportionals as if Plato be mortal Socrates is also mortal if the eye directs the body then reason should direct the mind This rule faileth unless it be understood reduplicatively that is of like as like for every like is also unlike or else it could not be like but the same and hence a Crow cannot be said to be rational because a Blackmore is so and so of the rest And here the respondent if he do except against the arguments founded on this Canon must shew in what the things propounded are like or unlike Probable propositions and things compared among themselves are said to be more and less and equal The Canons concerning comparison of things are general or special The general rules are these 1. That which is such by nature is more such than that which is so by participation as the Sun is lighter than the air 2. That which is by it self is more so than that which is by accident 3. That which is more remote from the contrary is more than that which is nearer as the air is colder under the Poles than under the Tropick 4. That which makes more is more than that which maketh less as fire vehemently heating 5. That in which the cause is more inherent is more than that in which it is less as a young man is stronger than an old 6. That to which the definition or the mean is more agreeable is more than that to which it is less as that which doth more conduce to the end is more profitable and many more which do all fail unless there be a restriction of the rest being like for terms of comparison do almost exceed one another mutually and are exceeded Special rules concerning that which is more or less good are these 1. The more good things there are in any subject the better it is as peripatetick felicity is better than the Stoick 2. The more it is good to the better as Justice is better than fortitude 3. That which is desired for it self is better as peace is better than war 4. That which is in it self good is better as good laws are better than evil manners 5. That which is more durable is better as verture is better than beauty 6. That which is solitarily good is better as a competency is better than great riches 7. That which hath the more noble object is better as Divinity is better than Physick 8. That which leads to perfection is better than that which serves for necessity as seeing is better than feeling 9. That which is the nearer to the end is the better as the Harvest is better