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.

Secunda species syllogismi explicati est, &c.

There are two things to be considered in this de∣finition: first, that the argument doth antecedere in propositione: secondly, that it be affirmed in the as∣sumption: for the placing of the third argument, we must know, that the place of it is double: first, it must be the antecedent in the proposition; secondly, it must be the consequent in the assumption, and it had his name medium from this syllogism principally, for in a contract it was placed before the parts of the question, in the first explicate after them: here it comes between them both, and because this kind was most common, and a figure best known in Schools, ergo, hence came the third argument to be called medium: Secondly, the assumption must be affirmed, and herein it agreeth with a contract; and here we see what syllogism may be concluded in an explicate: first, an affirmed of all sorts, whether generalis, parti∣cularis, or proprius: secondly, a denyed of all sorts but not every denied; for if the antecedent part dis∣agree

with the third argument, then it will be con∣cluded in the first kind of an explicate, and therefore argumentum antecedit the consequent part of the que∣stion, sequitur affirmatum, the antecedent in the as∣sumption, as we heard generally in a simple syllo∣gism; as for example, the question is, whether profit attend honesty, the third argument is justum: for the proposition, if it be not well gotten it will not thrive: for the assumption, the truth of that ap∣pears, because justitia generalis, or virtus and honesta•• are all one.