CHAP. I.
THough immediately after the Treatise of a Proposition, the old men are wont to deale with the order of reasoning, called Argu∣mentation, and with the formes thereof: yet sith by order of Nature it is meete to finde out matter, before wee goe about to forme, frame or order the same, and that the mat∣ter of prouing any Question is to be fetched from certaine common Places, I thought it best to treat first of those Places, and then to shew the order of reasoning.
A Place is a marke or token, shewing from whence any Argument apt to proue the Question propounded, is to bee taken.
Argument is the bare proofe or meane terme which is in∣uented by him that disputeth, to proue the truth of the Questi∣on: but Argumentation is the whole reasoning it selfe, of what