ch. 8).
[14] Laws of Thought, § 118.
[15] “Haud scio magis ne doctrinam modalium scholastici exercuerint, quam ea illos vexarit. Certe usque adeo sudatum hic fuit, ut dicterio locus sit datus; De modalibus non gustabit asinus.” Keckermann, Syst.
Log.
Bk. II.
ch. 3.
[16] Smiglecii Disputationes, Ingolstadt, 1618.
See also Prantl's Geschichte der Logik (under Occam and Buridan) for accounts of the excessive complication which the subtlety of those learned schoolmen evolved out of such suitable materials.
[17] Translation by T. M. Lindsay, p. 439.
[18] “The εἰκòς