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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.
Publication: London :: Printed by William Stansby, and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes,; 1617.
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Subject terms: Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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How shall I know in long speeches, and specially being preposterously set, which is the Subiect, and which is the predicate?

By asking this question, Who, or What: for that which answe∣reth to this question, is alwaies the Subiect, as in this example: It were meet to learne my Grammar perfectly, before I entred into my Logicke: here if you aske, What is meet, you shall finde that to learne my Grammar perfectly is the Subiect, and all the rest to be the predicate. And note that these two words, Subiect and Predicate, are said to be the terms, limits, or extreme bounds of a Proposition, whereof we shall speake hereafter.