he teaches how to empty the third, that is, to extract the implicit combinations; how to multiply the fourth, that is, to augment it with new combinations; then how to mix the principles with the rules, that is, to join them to the predicates and interrogatory signs: how to apply subjects to the principles and rules, how to apply forms to them as well, and finally, how to frame and solve combined questions, etc. So that you may rightly conclude that the nature of any thing whatsoever can be explored by this combinatorial art, if it is deduced through the principles and rules of the art.

CHAPTER V.

A view of the special within the

general and of the latter within them.

1. Lullius presented the general points concerning any predicate and subject, as well as questions about most forms with answers to each, in his Great Art, to which we refer the curious for the sake of brevity; we now intend to indicate in a few words how one ought to contemplate special things within these general ones. For this very thing is the principal point in the whole