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But the face of Dialectics was also far different at that time than it is now, since the Stoics were at least exercising their disputes through the doctrine of judgment, as Cicero testifies. Those who assign logic to words, unless they are speaking metonymically, are fools.
Subtleties.
Nor are the subtleties in our booklet truly such. They seem so to him who is not exercised, and who, raised in the air of the Boeotians a proverbial reference to stupidity, does not know more than the common crowd. If the adversaries had known the thorns of the ancient Scholastics, they would judge that we have embraced the open truth. Against the suspicion of Calvinistic depravation, we have sufficiently fortified ourselves in the preface of the book. If anyone is not content with that apology, let him delight in his own suspicion. We will not make faith in our confession to anyone. They use a most wondrous argument while they deny that sacred things are of reason or logic because they are mysteries of faith. You know the homonymy of REASON, which is sometimes accepted for worldly wisdom, which does not admit celestial things; and if it cannot understand them, it repudiates them and judges them false. Sometimes it is accepted for the science of reasoning well, as much about celestial things as about human ones.