Short Art

¶ Concerning the 6th part, which is about the evacuation of the third figure.

In the third figure, the intellect evacuates the chambers, because it abstracts from them as much as it can, receiving from each chamber those things which the letters signify so that it may apply those significations to the proposition; and thus it makes itself applicative, investigative, and inventive. And of this, we will give an example from one chamber. And just as follows from that, so it will follow from the others. From chamber B-C, the intellect draws twelve propositions, saying thus: Goodness is great, goodness is different, goodness is concordant. Magnitude is good, magnitude is different, magnitude is concordant. Difference is good, difference is great, difference is concordant. Concordance is good, concordance is great, concordance is different. Having made these twelve propositions by changing the subject into the predicate and conversely, the chamber is thus evacuated of those propositions. Then it evacuates them with twelve media; and they are called media because they consist between the subject and the predicate, with which they agree in genus or species. And with those media, the intellect makes itself disputative and determinative. And the said evacuation having been made, the intellect evacuates that chamber with twenty-four questions, because in each proposition there are two questions implied. And this is done thus: Goodness is great. Whether goodness is great. What is goodness great? Goodness is different. Whether goodness is different.