Of INCEPTIVES and DESITIVES.
When we say that any thing begins, or ceases to be, there are two judgments
Logic, or, The art of thinking in which, besides the common, are contain'd many excellent new rules, very profitable for directing of reason and acquiring of judgment in things as well relating to the instruction of for the excellency of the matter printed many times in French and Latin, and now for publick good translated into English by several hands.
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- Logic, or, The art of thinking in which, besides the common, are contain'd many excellent new rules, very profitable for directing of reason and acquiring of judgment in things as well relating to the instruction of for the excellency of the matter printed many times in French and Latin, and now for publick good translated into English by several hands.
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- Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.
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- London :: Printed by T.B. for H. Sawbridge ...,
- 1685.
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"Logic, or, The art of thinking in which, besides the common, are contain'd many excellent new rules, very profitable for directing of reason and acquiring of judgment in things as well relating to the instruction of for the excellency of the matter printed many times in French and Latin, and now for publick good translated into English by several hands." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25846.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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made; one that the thing was before the time that we talk of; the other, what it was afterward, and so these Propositions of which the one are call'd Inceptive, the other Desitive, are compos'd in sence, and they are so like, that it is much better to make but one sort of 'em, and to handle 'em both together.
The Jews did not begin till their return from the captivity of Babylon, to make no longer use of their antient Characters, which were those that are now call'd the Samaritan.
1. The Latin ceas'd to be vulgarly spoken in Italy about five hundred Years ago.
2. The Jews did not begin till the first Centu∣ry after Jesus Christ, to make use of Points for Vowels.
These Propositions are contradicted as the one and the other relates to the two different times. So there are some who contradict the latter Proposition; alledging, though falsly, that the Jews always used points, at least to read by, and that they were kept in the Temple. Which is contradicted by others, who affirm that points were never us'd till af∣ter the first Century.