Iacobi Acontii Tridentini de methodo, hoc est, de recta investigandarum, tradendarumque artium, ac scientiarum ratione

...in handing down the arts, all verbosity seems to be avoided. For this very reason, we leave aside the disputations and opinions to be piled up by those who care more about showing off than about being truly wise themselves, or than promoting the studies of others, or those who have dealings with the stubborn.

It does not seem to me that there should be any doubt that Method ought to be referred to logic, since it embraces the laws of defining, dividing, and gathering, all of which it is sufficiently clear pertain to the office of the logician. Therefore, in order that it may be conveniently understood what Method is, logic must be defined and divided.

I. Logic is, in my own judgment however many define it, the correct method of contemplating and teaching. And indeed, it is necessary that we either contemplate or teach one of two things: namely, either whether it is possible for something to be affirmed or denied about something, or whether this rather than that e.g., whether faith should be kept with enemies or not; likewise, whether the military or the toga is more worthy; or, with the examination of truth left aside, that an explanation of some thing be sought e.g., what war is, or of what the art of speaking consists, or the Christian religion.