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Ax. 1. A Pure Enunciation is that in which it is not express'd how the Parts cohere.
Ax. 2. Modal, in which it is.
1. §. For Instance: This Enunciation, Man is an Animal, or, Man is not a Stone, is Pure; because it not
only declares the Predicate Animal to convene with Man, and Stone to disagree; but also without Expres∣sing the Manner how. But these Enunciations, viz. It is necessary that Man should be an Animal; or impos∣sible he should be a Stone, are Modal; because they not only denounce the Predicate to agree or disagree with the Subject, but also declare the Manner how they both agree and disagree, &c.
Ax. 3. The Modes are four, viz. Necessary, Impos∣sible, Possible, Contingent.
1. §. Now of Modes some are Material, and o∣thers Formal. The Material Modes affect the Matter of the Enunciation, viz. either Subject or Predicate. For Example: In this Enunciation, A good Shepherd lays down his Life for his Sheep. The Word Bonus or Good, is the Mode of the Subject. In this, A Rheto∣rician speaks Ornately and Copiously. The Adverbs Ornately, and Copiously, are the Modes of the Predicate. The Formal affect, the Form, or Disposition of the E∣nunciation. And these, it is we have said to be four, viz. Necessary, Impossible, Possible, Contingent. To which also some add True and False, but very un∣skilfully: For True and False affect not Affirmation or Negation: For he that says it is true, a Man is an Animal; or it is false, he is a Stone, says no more than if he should say, a Man is an Animal, or that a Man is not a Stone, &c.
Ax. 4. Modal Enunciation consists of a Dictum and Mood: The Dictum of which is as it were the Sub∣ject, and the Mood the Predicate: And this Modal E∣nunciation
1. §. Is either, Adverbially express'd, as, when I say, Man is necessarily an Animal; or Nominally, as, when I say, it is necessary that Man should be an Animal, &c. When Adverbially, it differs not in Specie, from a Pure: When Nominally, it makes up a new Species, or Form of Enunciation, in which the Dictum is, as it were the Subject, and the Mode the Predicate. The Dictum in this is an Oration,
consisting of the Case of a Noun and Verb of the Infi∣nitive Mood; as, here, it is necessary that God be good•• That is, Deum ••esse bonum; the Dictum is, that God be good; the Mode, Necessary. That the Mode is the Predicate; or as the Predicate in a Modal Enunci∣ation, is to be collected from the Copula: For the Co∣pula is one Part of the Predicate; and therefore that is the Predicate to which the Copula coheres; But the Copula coheres with the Mode. And therefore the Mode must either be or have the Ratio of the Predicate, &c. The same is evident in a Mutation of a Modal E∣nunciation into a Pure. For this Enunciation, It is neces∣sary the Fire should be hot, is converted into a Pure, in this Manner, viz. To the Fire Heat is necessary. By which it appears that the Mode Necessary was the Predicate in that Enunciation.
Ax. 5. To this sort of Enunciation are revok'd all Enunciations Exclusive, Exceptive and Restrictive.
1. §. An Exclusive is that in which an Exclusive Particle; such as only, or the like, is added to the Subject or the Predicate: As, The Elect only shall be saved: The Devils act only evilly. Exceptive, in which an Exceptive; as, besides, but, except, or the like: As, All Men were swept away in the Flood, but Noah and his Family. Restrictive, in which a Restrictive; as, so far as, in respect of, &c. As Man feels so far as he is an Animal: Christ is every where in respect to h•••• Divine Nature. Such Enunciations as these in a Syllo∣gism, are to be chang'd and expounded by some clearer Form of Speech. And hence they are called by the Schoolmen, Exponible or Expoundible. And thus far of Species's and Enunciations.