Therefore, Every man is a body;
Yet this conversion appears so obscure, that this mood is of no use at all. By the conversion of the major proposition, it is manifest, that in this figure, the middle term is always the predicate in both the premises.
Second indirect figure how made.
10. The second indirect figure is made by converting the minor proposition, so as that the middle term is the subject in both. But this never concludes universally, and therefore is of no use in philosophy. Nevertheless I will set down an example of it; by which this direct
Every man is a living creature,
Every living creature is a body,
by conversion of the minor proposition, will stand thus,
Some living creature is a man,
Every living creature is a body,
Therefore, Some man is a body.