The lavviers logike exemplifying the præcepts of logike by the practise of the common lawe, by Abraham Fraunce.

The eight Chapter. Of the Discretiue Axiome.

THe discretiue or discerning axiome is that whose coniunction is discretiue. Wherefore of disagrée∣able argumentes it is fittest to dispose those that are diuers and differ onely in respect.

In December.

But ah vnwise and witlesse Colin Clowt, That kidst the hidden kinde of many a weede, Yet kyds not one to cure thy sore heart roote, Whose ranckling wound as yet doth rifely bleede.

Maister Plowden: Fol. 82. a. Car parols, que ne sont que le verberation del ayer, ne sont lestatute, mes solement l'i∣mage del statute.

This axiome is iudged to bée true, when the partes bée not onely true but diuers also the one from the other: false and ridiculous, when otherwise.

Annotations.

Dissentanea argumenta etiam congregatiuo axiomate enun∣ciari possunt, vt mel & dulce est & flauum, hîc diuersa enun∣ciantur congregatiuo copulato. Quin & simplici etiam axio∣mate

diuersa enunciari possunt, vt flauedo mellis non est du•…•…∣cedo eius.

Vt occupatiua axiomata non admittunt contradictionem, ita nec discretiua; sed illa apta sunt ad respondendum & con∣tradicendum consequentibus falsis enthymematum illlorum hominum quibuscum loquimur: haec ad contradicendum enunciatis copulatis ex parte falsis, vt Aesopus & ingeniosus fuit & fonnosus, hoc falsum est ex parte posteriore: Si ergò hanc falsitatem velim ostendere contradicendo, non satis erit negare copulationem, sic, Aesopus non & ingeniosus & formo∣sus fuit. Hinc enim nondum liquet, vtram partem falsam pu∣tem: instituenda est ergò discretio sic, Aesopus non fuit ille quidem formosus, sed tamen fuit ingeniosus, & hic solus est discretorum vsus.

Enunciata per, quanquam, et, tamen, videntur 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, non 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, vt,

Hic Priamus, quanquam in media iam morte tenetur,

Non tamen abstinuit &c. Vbi Virgilius, nihil dis∣cernit, sed lectoris cogitationi occurrit, & contradicit, nam lector videns Pyrrhum a•…•…matum, facilè obijceret, Priamum non audere loqui. Occurrit ita{que} Virgilius & dicit, quanquam &c. Non tamen &c. Hic est solus horum vsus. Piscator.

Elenchs. It is a ridiculous discretiue axiome wherein such things are seuered, which naturally go so together, as that they can not somuch as be seuered in respect, much lesse in déede.