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 15, 2024.

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When is it said to faile both in matter and forme?

It faileth both in matter and forme, when the premisses are neither probable, nor yet doe conclude rightly according to the rules of Logicke, as thus: No opposites are both true at once, but subcontraries are opposites: Ergo, no subcontraries are both true at once. Here first it faileth in matter, because the Maior, (as hath been said before) is not probable in deed. A∣gaine, it faileth in forme, because that contrary to the rules of a

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Syllogisme, an vniuersall conclusion is implied, one of the pre∣misses being particular, which should not be.

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