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.

How defineth he an Elench or Reprehension?

Reprehension or Elench (sayeth he) is a Syllogisme which gathereth a conclusion contrary to the assertion of the respon∣dent, as if a man would defend Medea: not to loue her childe because she killed it, another might reason against him in this maner: euery mother loueth her child: but Medea is a mother: Ergo, Medea loueth her child: the Cōclusion of this Syllogisme is contrarie to the first assertion: and note here by the way, that there be two sorts of Elenches, the one true & the other false, it is said to be true▪ when it rightly gathereth a cōtrary conclu∣sion to the respondents assertion: And false, when it fayleth in any part requisite to a true Elench: of which partes wee shall speake hereafter, when we come to treate of the Fallax called Ignorance of the Elench, which is one of the fiue endes or markes whereunto Sophistrie tendeth, for a true Elench see∣meth to belong vnto Dialecticall disputation, rather then to Sophisticall disputation. But now leauing to define a Syllo∣gisme, because it hath beene defined before, and therefore not needfull here againe to be rehearsed, I will proceede to Dis∣putation.