Monitio logica, or, An abstract and translation of Burgersdicius his logick by a gentleman.

CHAP. IX. Of the Four last Categories

Ax. 1. UBi is a Mode after which finite things are said to be somewhere.

1. §. Ubi differs from Place; in that Place, if strict∣ly taken, agrees only with Bodies: Ubi also with Incorporeal Substances if finite: For Substances In∣corporeal are said to be in a Place definitively; that is, they are so said to be somewhere as not to be elsewhere; but yet so as they occupy not any Place, or exclude other Substances, whether Corporeal or Incorporeal out of it, which is improperly to be in a Place; but Corporeal Substances are said to be

in a Place circumscriptively; that is, are said to oc∣cupy, and expel other Corporeal Substances out of it; which is properly to be in a Place. I say, definite, because God, who is Infinite, is not said to be some∣where, but everywhere.

2. §. There is also another difference between Place and Ubi: For Place belongs to the Question in which it is asked, How much a thing is in Quantity? or how much Room will it take up? Ubi to the Que∣stion in which it's ask'd, Where, or whence the Thing is? Whither, or which Way gone? And those Answers which are made to these Questions; as, at home, abroad, in the Country, in the Temple, hence, thence, hither, thither, this Way, that Way, &c. are plac'd in this Category.

Ax. 2. When is a Mode, after which finite things are said sometime to be, to have been, or to come.

1. §. Quando, or When, differ from Time strictly and properly so called; as Ubi from Places For Time strictly taken, agrees only to Things Successive and consisting in a perpetual Motion and Flux of Parts: For it is defined a Number of Motion ac∣cording to First and Last in Book 4. of the Physicks, Cap. 11. But When is al∣so attributed to things moment any and permanent, if fi∣nite: For those things which are infinite and eternal, are not said sometime to be, but always.

2. sect;. Besides, the Words of Time belong to Quan∣tity, and to the Question made by how long? as, an Hour, a Year, an Age, &c, But the Words which belong to this Category to the Question made by When; as, to Day, to Morrow, Yesterday, in the Summer, in the Spring, in the Calends, in the Nones, in the Consulship of Man∣lius, &c.

Ax. 3. Site is the Order of the Parts of the Body a∣mongst themselves.

5. §. For Site belongs only to Bodies: For the Or∣der of the Parts in Time or Number uses not to be cal∣led Site: For although Site cannot be changed with∣out Local Motion; which is a Motion to Where, yet

is not Site to be confounded with Ubi, not so much as in Bodies: For the Ubi may be changed, not changing the Site. As when one without any Motion of Parts is car∣ried out of one Place into another.

2. §. Site is either natural, as that of the Arm at the Shoulder-Blade, or of the Hand at the Wrist; or vo∣luntary; as, to sit, to stand, to lie, to be prone, su∣pine, &c.

Ax. 4. Habit is a Manner, after which Clothes, or any thing like Clothes, are put about the Bo∣dy, appended or any other way adjoined to it.

1. §. To this Category belong all those Words which signifie the Conjunction of Clothes, Armour, and such like things with the Body; as Clothed, Armed, Gowned, Shield∣ed, Speared, Bearded, Strewed, or Covered with Arras, Tapestry, &c. These and the like Words signifie not Clothes or Arms, but the Conjunction of Clothes or Arms with the Body; which Aristotle signified when in the 4th Book of the Metaph. Cap. 20. he called Habit the Act of him which has, and of that which is had; and between him which has on the Garment, and the Gar∣ment it self, &c. And thus far of the Categories.

Notes

• That is, accor∣ding to Priom∣ty or Posterin∣rity.