When a thing is rather described, then defined, by such com∣mon and proper accidents as doe belong to the same, as fire is an element that is hot and drie, and exceedeth all other elements in lightnesse: and therefore this last kinde of definition ought rather to be called a description then a definition, which is vsuall to the
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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- 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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- Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.
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- London :: Printed by William Stansby, and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes,
- 1617.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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When is a definition said to be made by heaping vp of accidents?
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Poets, Orators, and Historiographers, in describing either per∣son, fact, or thing: also to the Physicians, in describing their sim∣ples, as roots, plants, herbes, and such like.