Universa Philosophia

Name: Universa Philosophia
Author: Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza

First published 1624

Hurtado de Mendoza, Universa Philosophia (Lyon 1624): the Summulae and the Logica through Disputatio VII, with an original English translation. The rest of the work follows in later append batches.

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Summulae

Instruction for the Beginner on the Method of Argument

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Aristoteles primo Physicorum

ARISTOTLE, in book 1 of the Physics, ch. 1, says that the discussion of composite things must begin from their parts and elements. But since every argumentation (which is the matter of the Summulae) consists of parts, these are the first things that come up for discussion. Argumentation, however, consists of propositions, a proposition of subject, predicate, and the union of both; but subject and predicate have customarily been called terms.

Sectio I. What Are Subject, Predicate, and Union?

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§ 4 Sectio II. The Definition of Terms.

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§ 20 Sectio III. On Vocal, Written, and Mental Terms.

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§ 26 Sectio IV. On Significant and Non-Significant Terms.

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§ 35 Signum significativum ad placitum

Sectio V. Divisions of the Mental Term.

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§ 43 Sectio VI. On Universal, Particular, Confused, and Determinate, Superior, and Inferior Terms.

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§ 66 Sectio VII. On Transcendent and Non-Transcendent Terms.

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§ 68 Sectio VIII. On Univocal, Equivocal, and Analogous Terms.

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§ 73 Sectio IX. On Absolute and Connotative Terms.

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§ 87 Sectio X. On Categorematic and Syncategorematic Terms.

§ 88 Dices categorematicos significare

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§ 92 Sectio XI. Concrete, Abstract, Complex, and Incomplex; Copulative and Non-Copulative Terms.

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§ 103 Sectio XII. On Negative and Non-Negative Terms: Contrary and Contradictory.

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§ 108 Sectio XIII. On Terms of First and Second Intention: Pertinent and Impertinent.

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§ 111 Disputatio II. On the Properties of Terms.

Sectio I. On Supposition.

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§ 10 Sectio II. Formal and Material Supposition.

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§ 12 Sectio III. Simple and Personal Supposition.

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§ 20 Sectio IV. Common and Singular Supposition.

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§ 23 Sectio V. Distributive, Copulate, Determinate, Natural, and Accidental Supposition.

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§ 32 Sectio VI. On Ascent and Descent.

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§ 42 Sectio VII. On Ampliation, Restriction, Alienation, and Diminution.

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§ 49 Sectio VIII. On Appellation.

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§ 52 Disputatio III. On Speech, Its Parts, and Division.

Sectio I. On the Noun.

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§ 21 Disputatio IV. On the Proposition.

Sectio I. I Define the Proposition.

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§ 3 Sectio II. On the Matter, Quality, and Quantity of the Proposition.

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§ 6 Sectio III. Categorical, Hypothetical, Complex, and Incomplex Propositions.

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§ 12 Sectio IV. On the Equipollence of Simple Propositions.

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§ 14 Sectio V. On the Conversion of the Simple Proposition.

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§ 19 Sectio VI. On the Opposition of the Simple Proposition.

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§ 23 Sectio VII. The Preceding Doctrine and the Rules of Opposites Explained.

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§ 33 Sectio VIII. On the Modal Proposition.

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§ 37 Sectio IX. Modal Propositions Explained and Described.

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§ 41 Sectio X. Why Are All Propositions of Each Figure Mutually Equipollent?

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§ 46 Sectio XI. On the Quantity and Quality of Each Figure.

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§ 50 Sectio XII. On the Opposition of Each Figure to the Others.

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§ 60 Sectio XIII. On Exponible and Exclusive Propositions.

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§ 64 Sectio XIV. Difficulties Concerning This Doctrine.

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§ 74 Sectio XV. On Exceptive and Reduplicative Propositions.

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§ 76 Disputatio V. On the Method of Knowing.

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§ 12 Sectio III. On Argumentation.

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§ 27 Sectio V. Ostensive Deduction of Syllogisms.

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§ 48 Sectio VII. On Consequence.

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§ 12 Logic

Disputatio I: Disputatio I. On the Object of Logic.

Sectio I. On Object and Subject in General.

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§ 20 Sectio III. Whether Words Are the Object of Logic?

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§ 26 Subsectio II. That voices do not inadequately pertain to the logician either.

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§ 40 Sectio IV. Whether a Being of Reason Is the Object of Logic?

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§ 44 Subsectio I. Which beings of reason constitute the object of logic.

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§ 52 Subsectio II. Refutation of the first argument drawn from authority.

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§ 59 Subsectio III. Arguments for the opinion of Soto and the other Thomists.

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§ 80 Sectio V. Whether the Formal or Rather the Objective Method of Knowing Is the Object of Logic.

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§ 98 Sectio VI. What the Logician Immediately Considers in the Formal Method of Knowing.

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§ 110 Sectio VII. Whether the Formal Method of Knowing Is Treated by Attribution to the Objective.

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§ 118 Sectio VIII. On the Adequate Object of Dialectical Attribution.

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§ 134 Subsectio III. Definition, division, and argumentation are not the adequate object of logic.

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§ 146 Subsectio IV. Demonstration alone is the adequate object of attribution.

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§ 163 Sectio IX. Other Matters Concerning the Object of Logic.

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§ 168 Disputatio II: Disputatio II. How Logic Attains Its Object.

Sectio I. On Logic as Used and as Taught: Whether Each Is a Science?

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§ 42 Disputatio III: Disputatio III. On the Predicables in General.

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Sectio I. I Define Genus.

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§ 48 Disputatio V: Disputatio V. On Species and the Individual.

Sectio I. On the Subjectable Species.

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Subsectio I. The opinion of the Thomists.

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§ 105 Disputatio VI: Disputatio VI. On Difference, Property, and Accident.

Sectio I. I Set Forth the Essence of Difference.

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§ 40 Disputatio VII: Disputatio VII. On What Is Common to the Five Predicables.