Of Probable Accidents, Coniectures, Presumptions, Signes, and Circumstances.
HOw may we reason from Probable Accidents?
From Probable Accidents you may reason Affirma∣tiuely thus: The feast of Bacehus is this day celebrated: Ergo,
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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- 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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there will bee many drunken this day. The generall Sessions are holden this day: Ergo, there will be some hanged.
What be the maxims of this place?
If the latter be, it is likely that the former went before, and if the former bee, it is like enough the latter may sollow: but you must beware in reasoning from this place, that you fetch not your argument from such Accidents as chance but sel∣dome, or be indifferent, for such be neither necessarie nor pro∣bable, but sophisticall and fallible, as to reason thus. Shee is a faire woman: Ergo, she is vnchast.
Whereto serueth the place of common Accidents?
In the Iudiciall kinde it helpeth greatly to proue the fact. In the Demonstratiue kinde to praise or dispraise. In the Delibe∣ratiue kinde to perswade or disswade, and to gather together all Coniectures meete for the purpose and therefore this place is much vsed of natural Philosophers to proue things by natu∣rall signes, or by Physiognomie: also of Astrologers •…•…o proue dearth, mortalitie, and such like, by wonders, and monsters, as by blazing starres, and such like impressions. Also it is much vsed of Chiromancers, Southsayers, and such as vse to iudge by Coniectures, and therefore this place extendeth very farre, and serueth to many vses. Hitherto also are referred the places of circumstances, and chiefely of time and place, from whence good arguments may be fetched.