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 object first, from Soto above, that the ancients never call a proposition a term. Second, you may say that the subject of a hypothetical proposition is one whole proposition, and therefore is not a term. I prove the consequence: a term is a part of a proposition, whereas a proposition is a whole; and a whole is distinct from a part, so a term too is distinct from a proposition. Otherwise we would confuse terms. These objections are not compelling. To the first I answer that Aristotle, in book 1 of the Prior Analytics, defines a term as subject and predicate. Hence when a whole proposition becomes the subject in another proposition, it will be that proposition’s term according to Aristotle. Thus Toledo, book 1, chapter 10, and Villalpando, book 1, chapter 1, define term in general, abstracting from hypothetical and categorical propositions.