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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Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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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 16, 2024.

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Define these kindes.
  • 1 Definition sheweth what the thing is.
  • 2 Supposition is that which supposeth a thing to be, or not to be, as the Geometricians do suppose that there is Punctum, (that is to say) a pricke, or a thing indiuisible, hauing nei∣ther length, bredth, nor depth.
  • 3 Petition is a Proposition asked and granted to be true: as this is a petition in Geometry, that a man may draw a right line from one point to another.
  • 4 Supposition assumpted is, when a manifest supposition is assumpted to proue another thing withall, as to proue that de∣monstration consisteth of true Propositions, the disputer will assumpt this assertion, which saith, that of false things there is no certaine knowledge: and trueth is not knowne but of true things.
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