Rudimenta artium dialecticae et rhetoricae

DIALECTICAE.

Third figure 3.

The third figure of Syllogisms: in which the middle term is the subject in both propositions. As in this Syllogism:
Every virtue is honest.
Every virtue is laborious.
Therefore some laborious things are honest. Here the middle term is, as appears, Virtue: which is made the subject in both; the major is, honest; the minor is, laborious. Now, the honest and the laborious meet with their middle, and thus they cannot fail to meet each other in the conclusion.

These are those three figures of Syllogisms. For every figure there are certain and distinct modes of concluding arguments, about which the greater Dialectic gives instruction.

ON THE ENTHYMEME, THE SECOND species of Argumentation.

What an Enthymeme is

An Enthymeme is a mutilated and imperfect Syllogism: for one or the other proposition is always missing in it: Either the major, as in this example:

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