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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12767	The art of logick deliuered in the precepts of Aristotle and Ramus. VVherein 1. The agreement of both authors is declared. 2. The defects in Ramus, are supplyed, and his superfluities pared off, by the precepts of Aristotle. 3. The precepts of both, are expounded and applyed to vse, by the assistance of the best schoolemen. By Tho: Spencer.	Spencer, Thomas, fl. 1628-1629.	1628 (1628)	STC 23072; ESTC S117789	95,773	326

If a living Creature indued with reason then a man and both of them containe one and the same truth Thus haue we done with the definition we must come to a description next CHAP. XXXVII Of a Description A description is a sentence which setteth out a thing Ramus even by other arguments THis precept is agreed on by all parties as the Reader may finde in the foregoing Chapter therefore we need not make doubt whether it belongs to this art or no It is reasonable cleere therefore a few words will prevent all doubtfulnesse in it A thing That is the thing described Now the thing described seemes to be of shorter scantling then the thing defined A singular or individuall substance may be described but not defined for so we heard from Aristotle in the foregoing Chapter and he made it a law that every definition must be vniversall but that proposition where an individuall thing is subiected is not vniversall Other Arguments These words doe containe the formall nature of an imperfect definition The word argument importeth an affirmatiue predication in a description for dissenting arguments cannot describe nor define no not in the most vnperfect manner for defining how imperfect so ever it is must needs import that the thing is in some sort or other but dissenting arguments doe not serue in the least sort to set out what a thing is They haue force to shew what a thing is not and no more The word other doth signifie that the arguments whereby a thing is described are mixed and are partly essentiall partly without the essence Where wee must know that the more neere arguments be vnto the essence the more force they haue to set out the thing described and the more truely that sentence wherein they are predicated may be called by the name of a Definition Here it may be doubted whether a Description may be made in any part by accidents I answer No accident as it is an accident hath place in a Definition and I thinke so because Aristotle doth perpetually forbid accidents to come within the dores of any Definition An accident according to Aristotle may in some respects and at some time become proper and in that case they may serue to describe an individuall subiect as this or that singular man may be made knowne to vs and differenced from all others by riches learning c. which he inioyes and none other Now we see what arguments are disposed in a description and how they are referred the one to the other it remaineth that I declare what truth there is in it In a Description there is a necessary truth I say necessary truth not of constitution for that is proper to a perfect definition where the thing defined and the definition doe Constitute each other and is adaquatly the same thing according to the sentence of Thomas 1. dist 25. q. 1. art 1. ad 2m. But of emanation effluence and consecution in as much as the arguments describing are at least so proper vnto the thing described that they come convertible therewith and it cannot but be so for if the properties doe belong to the species or the whole kinde then they are necessary emanations from the principles of nature belonging to that kind and therefore they stand and fall together If the properties appertaine to an individuall then they haue a necessary connexion therewith thorough a peculiar right and possession I will adde an instance or two and thereby the nature and truth of this precept will be made evident and cleere A man is a living Creature mortall and capable of learning In this sentence man abstracted from individualitie that is not considered as this or that particular man is described all the words that follow the Verbe is containe the description These two terms viz. mortall and capable of learning are ioyned together by that Verbe and thereby the description is affirmatiue The word living Creature is essentiall to man for it is the whole shott as I may say or comprehension of all the parts of his nature in generall The words capable of learning import a thing proper vnto mankinde that is as he is formally this kinde of Creature which we call man and therefore that attribute bordreth next of all to mans particular essence The word mortall importeth an accident now made proper to man I say it is an accident and no more because it flowes not from the principles of his nature Mans reasonable soule is the chiefe thing in his being but mortalitie flowes not from that for the soule is living so sayth the Lord He breathed in his face the breath of life and he became a living soule Genesis 2.7 Mortalitie is now proper to all men because they all are subiected to death I say it is proper to them all not because they doe and must dye but because all of them and none but them must dye after that sort that is by accident All other Creatures are subiect to dissolution by that nature which they had from God by Creation but man is subiect to death by imposition he incurred his mortalitie when he sinned God threatned it before man sinned Genesis 2.17 and inflicted it when man had sinned Rom. 5.12 But that had never beene if the principles of mans nature had inclined and fitted him to mortalitie This being so we may well conclude mans mortalitie is very little distant from mans nature And consequently this proposition is a definition somewhat vnperfect There is a necessary truth in this Description for the thing defined and that wherewith it is defined are convertible the sentence is equally true which wayes soever you take it if it be read as it lyeth all men will grant it if we invert the parts and say thus Every living Creature that is mortall and capable of learning is man no man will deny it But this truth is not constitutiue for mortalitie and capacitie vnto learning as they are conceived by themselues and as they are in themselues haue no share in mans essence but is a thing flowing therefrom and were it not for a third thing that comes betweene them they might and might not belong to man any wayes This truth is necessary by emanation and consecution for take man as he is a man he must needs be reasonable as he is reasonable he cannot but be capable of learning take him as he is now a man and he must needs be mortall for he sinned and God imposed mortalitie vpon him We haue another example of a Description in the 2 Epistle to the Thessalonians the 2. Chapter and 3. verse c. which fitteth this place well Antichrist an individuall is sayd to be a man of sinne the sonne of perdition an outlaw c. Now all these be accidents yet they become proper vnto him in that sense wherein the holy Ghost meant them and that description containes a truth so necessary that we may certainely know that he is Antichrist who is