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

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The lavviers logike exemplifying the præcepts of logike by the practise of the common lawe, by Abraham Fraunce.
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Fraunce, Abraham, fl. 1587-1633.
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At London :: Imprinted by William How, for Thomas Gubbin, and T. Newman,
1588.
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Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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Annotations.

THis chapter conteyneth the third figure of Aristotle.

In all those artificiall woordes, Darapti, Felapton, &c. and others of the same kinde, there bée certeine significant letters to be obserued, as, A, signifieth a generall affirmatiue axiome: E, a generall negatiue: I, a speciall affirmatiue: O, a speciall negatiue: besides some consonantes which bée notes of Reduction, which I little estéeme of.

The olde verses bée thus,

Asserit, A: negat, E: sunt vniuersaliter ambae: Asserit, I: negat, O: sunt particulariter ambae.

Valla reiecteth this contracted syllogisme, so dooth Scribo∣nius, sith, as they thinke, there is no example héereof to bée found: and by Scribonius, there is no new syllogistical dispo∣sition héere, but onely an argument from the speciall. But Lazarus Schonerus, adducit haec exempla, Primum est in Mi∣loniana. Negant intueri lucem fas esse ei, qui à se hominem occisum fateatur. In qua tandem vrbe hoc homines stultissimi disputant? Nempè in ea quae primùm iudicium de capite vi∣dit, M. Horatii fortissimi viri, qui nondum libera ciuitate, ta∣men populi Romani comitijs liberatus est, cùm sua manu so∣rorem esse interfectam fateretur, syllogismus hic est,

  • M. Horatius populi comitijs absolutus est,
  • M. Horatius confessus est se sua manu caedem fecisse,
  • Ergò aliquis à se hominem occisum fassus, est absolutus.

Item in eadem. Quod si duodecim tabulae nocturnum fu∣rem quoquo modo, diurnum autem, si se telo defenderit, inter∣fici impunè voluêrunt, quis est, qui quoquo modo quis inter∣fectus sit, puniendum putet, cum videat aliquando gladium ad occidendum hominem ab ipsis porrigi legibus?

  • Syllogismus hic est,
  • Furem nocturnum interficere licet,
  • Furem nocturnum interficere, est hominem occidere,
  • Ergò hominem occidere aliquando licet.
  • Huius generis est illud,
  • Riuos deducere est licitum diebus festis,
  • Riuos deducere est opus rusticum,
  • Quaedam igitur opera rustica sunt licita festis diebus.

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Virgilius sic iudicat, 1. Georgic. sed pro argumento exem∣plum sextuplex, subijcit particulari quaestioni.

Quippè etiam festis quaedam exercere diebus Fas & iura sinunt: riuos deducere, nulla Relligio vetuit, segeti praetendere saepem, Insidias auibus moliri, incendere vepres, Balantum{que} gregem fluuio mersare salubri. Saepè oleo tardi costas agitator aselli, Vilibus aut onerat pomis, lapidem{que} reuertens Incusum, aut atrae massam picis vrbe reportat.

Exempla specialia suo generi particulariter sic interdum in artium praeceptis accommodantur, quale est illud de similitu∣dine, lib. 1. dialecticae Rameae, cap. 20. aliquando nota nulla est, Virg. Aeg. 2. O formose puer &c. Syllogismus hic est.

  • In hoc exemplo nota est nulla,
  • Est autem similitudinis:
  • Ergò aliquando similitudinis nota est nulla.

Sic in Rami Arithmetica, lib. 1. cap. 1. Numerus potest esse minimus, vt vnitas, syllogismus hic est.

  • Vnitas est res minima,
  • Vnitas est numerus:
  • Aliquis igitur numerus est minimus &c.

Elenchs. Among all these syllogismes, there is not any one good, where the assumption is negatiue.

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