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Upon the purest forms of inference in Barbara or Celarent, it can be shown satisfactorily that from all our tainted classes, a fortiori then from our most tainted classes our men of fashion and of opulent fortunes no description of animal can possibly arise but poltroons and faineans.
Another work which he had begun about the same time was the treatise on Dialectic, illustrated by geometrical problems and theorems, and likewise by the well-known logical catch lines Barbara Celarent. During the summer vacation of 1561 he returned to Milan, and began a Commentary on the Anatomy of Mundinus, the recognized text-book of the schools up to the appearance of Vesalius.
She knows what would be the inevitable effect of saddling you with the child, and she is right in her decision." "Has she been talking the matter over with you?" Thayer asked, with sudden jealousy. Bobby laughed scornfully. "No need. I have eyes of my own, and I learned my Barbara Celarent in junior year." Another block was passed in silence. Then Thayer asked, "Do you see Mrs. Lorimer often?"
The wisdom of the world lies down to sleep under the open sky. Such a beautiful comparison! It must be true." "Really, Madam, your conclusions, although attained with great rapidity of reasoning, are hardly deducible from the premises. Let me remark" "Reduce Camenes to Celarent, and the argument is plainly irrefragable.
'God geometrizes, it used to be said; and it was believed that Euclid's elements literally reproduced his geometrizing. There is an eternal and unchangeable 'reason'; and its voice was supposed to reverberate in Barbara and Celarent.
A man of sense syllogises in celarent and cesare all day long without suspecting it; and, though he may not know what an ignoratio elenchi is, has no difficulty in exposing it whenever he falls in with it; which is likely to be as often as he falls in with a Reverend Master of Arts nourished on mode and figure in the cloisters of Oxford.
He who studies logic in the proper way is not filling his mind with useless facts; he is simply turning the light upon his own thinking mind, and realizing more clearly what he has always done rather blindly and blunderingly. He may completely forget the "Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferioque prioris,"
They walk up to every statue with their measuring-line of Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferioque Prioris, and measure them off with equal solemnity, telling you severely that this nose is far longer than the classic rule admits, and this arm has not the swelling proportions of life, never seeing, that, though another statue was indeed designed for an Antinoüs, this was never meant to be anything but a broomstick dressed in your grandfather's cloak, with a lantern in a pumpkin for a head.
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