Ramist in a Sentence
  • Snellius, Arminius's old patron, now removed to Leiden, expounded the Ramist philosophy, and did his best to start his students on the search after truth, unimpeded by the authority of Aristotle.
  • In 1582 he went to Geneva, studied there awhile under Theodore Beza, but had soon, owing to his active advocacy of the Ramist philosophy, to remove to Basel.
  • It provided also a substitute for either the Aristotelian or the Ramist logic, which was an additional element in its favour.
  • The second book, which contains the review of Aristotle's dialectic or logic, is throughout Ramist in tone and method.
  • The whole doctrine of judgment, syllogism and method is a mixture of Aristotelian and Ramist notions.