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.

Axioma artium sic 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 esse debent, sed praeterea homogenia, & catholica.

Here he makes a special application of homogenic and catholike axioms, unto the axioms of Art, as if they did belong onely to them: and it is true, for though the doctrine of axioms be general to every thing, as Logick is, yet these laws are peculiar to the axioms of Art: and they are general, because they belong to all axioms of Art: and there is no rule of Art, but it must be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, & contra: if it be all of these, then is it a very rule of Art; if it be onely 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, then it is in a rule of Art, & is but a piece of axioma∣ta artium, therefore every rule of Art must first be true, because 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is the rule of truth, ergo, a con∣tingent axiom cannot be a rule of Art, for it may de∣ceive us, as often as teach truth: and it must be affir∣med, because it must teach, for a negative axiom tels us onely what a thing is not: for though this axiom, lapis non est animal, will never fail, yet not teaching me what lapis is, I may take it for a stick, or any other thing.