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.

Of Mouing or Motion, called in Latine, Motus, and of the kindes thereof.

WHerefore is mention made here of mouing?

For the better vnderstanding of the Predica∣ment Action, whereunto Mouing belongeth.

How many kindes of motion or mouing be there?

Six, briefly touched before in the predicament of Action, that is to say, generation, corruption, augmentation, diminution, alteration, and mouing from place to place.

Define these kindes.

• 1 Generation is a proceeding from the not being of a sub∣stance, to the being of the same, as from an Acorne to an Oke.
• 2 Corruption (contrariwise) is a proceeding from a being to a not being, as from an Oke to chips or ashes.
• 3 Augmentation is the increasing of a greater quantitie in the whole: as from a childe to a man.
• 4 Diminution is contrariwise a decreasing or diminishing of quantitie in the whole, as a body that consumeth or pineth by disease or otherwise.
• 5 Alteration is a proceeding or changing from one qualitie into another, as from hot to cold.
• 6 Mouing from place to place, is, as the mouing of the sunne out of the East into the West.