Dudley Fenner’s The artes of logike and rethorike, plainelie set foorth in the English tounge is a 1584 guide to speaking well and persuasively, based on models deriving from ancient Greece and Rome. It’s an example of early print distributing knowledge out to new readers, ‘into the handes of many,’ as the introduction has it. The first chapter of Book 2 is all about judgement, which the author says is a branch of logic and is concerned with ‘the ordering of reasons.’ Fenner begins his explanation with this sentence: ‘An Axiome or sentence is that ordering of one reason with another, whereby a thing is saide to be or not to be.’
Reverse quotations: ‘to be or not to be’ in 1584
Reverse quotations: ‘to be or not to be’ in…
Reverse quotations: ‘to be or not to be’ in 1584
Dudley Fenner’s The artes of logike and rethorike, plainelie set foorth in the English tounge is a 1584 guide to speaking well and persuasively, based on models deriving from ancient Greece and Rome. It’s an example of early print distributing knowledge out to new readers, ‘into the handes of many,’ as the introduction has it. The first chapter of Book 2 is all about judgement, which the author says is a branch of logic and is concerned with ‘the ordering of reasons.’ Fenner begins his explanation with this sentence: ‘An Axiome or sentence is that ordering of one reason with another, whereby a thing is saide to be or not to be.’