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

We shall call those things that pertain to the first method Questions matters requiring inquiry, but those that are referred to the other, Themata subjects/themes or Proposita propositions. From this it will follow that there are two parts of logic: one of which pertains to questions, and the other to propositions, which we now undertake to explain. For although the examination of truth and falsehood cannot be correctly performed without some Method, the name of Method seems to pertain more to that rationale by which the discussion of propositions is made straight and orderly.

Let Method, therefore, be a certain straight path by which, leaving aside the examination of truth, you can both investigate the knowledge of some thing and conveniently teach what you have attained. Although many things can occur in the explanation of some subject that require confirmation, this is not to be taken from the precepts of the Method which is treated here; rather, one must then have recourse to that part of logic which pertains to questions. For the offices of these parts of dialectic are not to be confused.

II. But what the end of Method is, for the sake of which it is to be sought, is indicated by the definition itself. For it is the knowledge of some thing, which he who contemplates desires to attain, but he who...