stand of three parts, because they play at three hands: and there must be two parts of the antece∣dent, because the argument being but one can play but twice, namely, with the two parts of the question, and therefore if it should play the third time, it must play with it self, and thence it is, that it never comes into the conclusion: now in a composite syllogism there is silently contained the antecedent part of the question in the assumption, though it be not exprest. Now the common Logicians call the proposition the major propositio, and the assumption the minor proposi∣tio, and the reason of it is this, because the majus ex∣tremum, namely, the consequent part of the question was put in proposition, and the minus extremum in the assumption: for as touching a composite syllo∣gism, Aristotle did not teach one word of it. Now Ramus keeps these terms propositio, and assumptio, and he had reason, for use hath taken up these words in good Authors for these things, as in Tully, Cornelius Agricola, and other Logicians that follow the more pure latine, and there is reason for it, for that which they call propositio there, is a thing propounded to him with whom we dispute, and then the former being granted, I do assume as it were out of the bowels of the proposition, the assumption: so the Greeks call propositio, Prothesis, and assumptio, Hypothesis: though I find some of them that call the proposition thesis, whereas the question is the thesis. Now propositio is that which is propounded, and carrieth a shew of truth with it, ergo, we seldom deny the proposition, but rather the assumption, or else distinguish of it, ergo, our chiefest care must be of the assumption, to discern truth and falshood in that.