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.

YOu sayd before, that the Forme of a Syllogisme com∣prehended Figure, and Moode, now therefore tell what Figure and Moode is, and how many of them there bee.

Figure is no other thing, but the diuers pla∣cing or disposing of the meane terme in the premisses: which figure is three-fold; that is, First, Second, and Third: for if the meane terme be the Subiect in the Maior Proposition, and Predicate in the Minor, as in the example aboue, then it ma∣keth a Syllogisme of the first figure, and if it chance to be Pre∣dicate in both Propositions, then it maketh a Syllogisme of the second figure, as thus: no stone is a sensible body: but man is a sensible body: Ergo, no man is a stone: for here the meane terme, Sensible body, is Predicate in both Propositions: but if the meane be subiect in both Propositions, then it maketh a Syllogisme of the third figure, as thus: euery man is a sub∣stance: euery man is a sensible body: Ergo, some sensible bo∣dy is a substance: for here the meane terme, that is, Man, is sub∣iect in both the first Propositions, and to these three figures do belong certaine moodes.