new fyftem of Philofophy, difFerent, but 
not lefs chimerical, than that of Ariftotle. 
It prevailed, however, particularly in France, 
until ovir immortal Newton publifhed his 
Princlpia, which, being founded on facts, 
necefTarily refuted all former hypothetical 
opinions. 
The philofophy of Ariftotle, and of Des 
Cartes, is now totally difregarded and for- 
gotten : yet the Logick of the prefent day is 
fundamentally that of Ariftotle, whofe fyf- 
tem Des Cartes new-modelled and corrected. 
He divided his book into four parts, viz* 
De mentis perceptione~Dejudiciofeu propojl- 
tlone <~-De ratiocinatione feu fyllogiftno De 
methodo feu difpofitione. This divifion has 
been generally adopted by fubfequent writ- 
ers on this fubject. Le Clerc, however, one 
of the beft of them, entitles his four divi- 
fions, De ideis Dejudicih~-De methodo 
De argumentation. 
Ariftotle, and his difciples, divided the 
objects of thought or entia, into ten clafTes, 
categoria, or predicament a-, all which, ex- 
cept the firft, they called Accidents. Thefe 
are they: Subftantia, guantitatis, ^ualitatis^ 
RelatiomSy Aft'ionis, Pqffionis, Ubi, Quand, Si* 
tus, Habitus. 
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