Universa Philosophia
Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578–1641)
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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Disputatio I. On the Terms of Propositions, and Their Union.
Aristoteles primo Physicorum
Sectio I. What Are Subject, Predicate, and Union?
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Sectio II. The Definition of Terms.
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You may say that blytiri is used there materially. But propositions are formed from terms that materially stand for themselves, as in “Nomen” is a word of the neuter gender: nomen stands for itself, so blytiri too, by standing for itself, forms a proposition. I shall soon refute the remaining defects in this definition, when I refute Soto’s. Second, you may say that the word blytiri stands for the mental term corresponding to it. Good; then it forms a spoken proposition because it is substituted for the mental term, as will become clear in disputation 2, section 1. Therefore, for a sign to be a term in a proposition, it need not signify by convention; it is enough that it can stand for a mental term. This is common to a spoken expression that signifies by convention and one that does not.