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.

Exposito artificiali argumento, &c.

This transition contains the conclusion of all that went before, and the proposition of that which fol∣lows: and here again we may see how artificiall ar∣guments go before inartificials, because inartifici∣all arguments have no ground but as they are backt with artificials. And this doctrine we may see to be true by the practise of common people; for if a man give testimony of that he knowes not, others will say he doth he knowes not what: For as no man can give testimony of that he knowes not; so no man ought to receive a testimony, but as it is backt with artificials, otherwise he knowes not the thing suffi∣ciently as he should; and if he first hear a testimo∣ny of a thing, and afterward come to see the thing, he will then say he knowes it, not because one testi∣fied so much, but because himself saw it to be so. It is called Argumentum inartificiale, because it never comes into Art to make up a Rule, though it may come in as a commoration to prove a rule syllogisti∣cally; but method is the disposition of axioms, not of syllogismes: now a testimony of a thing belongs to that Art to which the thing witnessed doth be∣long: as Aristotles authority against the creation of the world belongs to Divinity, there to be confuted in the doctrine of the creation.