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 that a spoken or written proposition has quantity and that its extremes are points. I answer that points are extremes of the motions by which a proposition is produced, but not of it insofar as it is formally a sign or proposition, since points are not constituted to signify. Thus proposition is taken formally, in the character of a proposition, not materially—that is, as the matter from which a proposition is made. Just as, to know a proposition formally, one need not form a concept of quantity—what it is and what kind it is—so, to form a concept of the terms of a proposition formally, one need not recall points, but only the subject and predicate.