The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published.

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Title: The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published.
Author: Richardson, Alexander, of Queen's College, Cambridge.
Publication: London :: Printed by Gartrude Dawson, and are to be sold by Sam. Thomson at the White-Horse in Paul's Church-yard,; 1657.
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Subject terms: Logic; Ramus, Petrus, -- 1515-1572; Talon, Omer, -- ca. 1510-1562
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Cum totum in partes distribuitur.

Here is first a totum, which shewes that it is alwayes some common thing, and the parts are speciall things contained in the whole: so that that which is new here, common, as a common cause, a common effect, subject, or adjunct, &c. and here this comon is called a totum, as it contains the parts, then again, this distri∣bution is as it were a pulling the parts in pieces, and not a joyning or gathering of them together, though iuductio be an inversa distributio: but he rather useth this word distributio, because it is more generall, and more in use, and the arguing from the whole to the parts is more in use, than contra.