of Edinburgh , Session 1870 - 71 . 
415 
It is not to be supposed that two names, especially when embo¬ 
died in such vague words as “old ” and “new ” should have pre¬ 
served the same invariable meanings in every writer during a period 
of three centuries. We may, therefore, admit, without prejudice 
to our statement, that the terms “ Yetus ” and “ Nova Logica ” did 
bear those significations which Prautl gives to them, and did pre¬ 
serve a more or less continuous connection with the terms 
“ Antiqui ” and “ Moderni.” But it may be proved that, from 
about the. middle of the twelfth century down to the middle of the 
fifteenth at least, the first meaning which the term Veins Logica 
would suggest to a mediaeval student was “ the logic treated in the 
Predicables of Porphyry, and in the Categories and De Interpre¬ 
tation e of Aristotle ; ” while the first meaning suggested by the 
term Nova Logica , was “ the logic treated in Aristotle’s Prior and 
Posterior Analytics, his Topics, and his book on Fallacies.” 
This may be directly proved from the quotations which Prantl 
himself gives. 
Lambert of Auxerre, who lived in the middle of the 13th 
century, says, “ Logica traditur in omnibus libris logicae, qui sunt 
sex. sc. liber praedicamentorum, liber Peryermenias, qui nuncdicun- 
tur veins logica , liber Priorum, Posteriorum, Thopicorum et Elen- 
chorum, qui quaiuor dicuntur nova logica .'’—CL Prantl, iii, 
p. 26. 
Cam. Nihil ab eo deinceps audiam. 
Bart. Eo stultior es, si doctrinam despicis. Nam non solum realist* verum 
etiam moderni magnam partem philosophise consecuti snnt. 
Cam. Sed versantur in sophismatibus tantum, veram doctrinam asper- 
nantur. 
Bart. Offendis veritatem, nam erudissimi viri reperiuntur inter modernos. 
Nonne audisti, in quibusdam terris eos possidere integras universitates? 
ut Viennae Erfordise, utque quondam hie erat. Nonne arbitraris, doctos hie 
bonosque fuisse ? Et nostro aevo adliuc reperiuntur ? 
Cam. Scio quidem et intelligo, sed fama eorum parva est. Elaborant solum 
in parvis logicalibus et sophismaticis opinionibus. 
Bart. Non recte intelligis, nam clari sunt in enunciationibus et syllogismis. 
Non reperies artium studiosos, qui syllogismos eeterasque species argumenta- 
tionis faeilius noscant quam moderni. 
Cam. Et in vera scientia nihil sciunt. 
Bart. Quam milii facis veram scieneiam ? 
Cam. Predicabilia Porphyrii, cathegorias Aristotelfs, in quibus aut parum 
noveant aut nihil.—p. 11, 12. 
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