ABSTRACT
Logic in the sixteenth century reached its high point in the early parts of the century at the University of Paris, with John Mair and his students. By the 1520s, the study of logic had died out in Paris, and, by the mid-sixteenth century, logic as it had been conceived of at least since the mid-thirteenth century had died out in most of Europe. It was only in Spain that it continued more or less undisturbed until the seventeenth century. Other ideals had become influential, and logic was replaced by an increased focus on rhetoric and language (see Knuuttila, Chapter 11). In such an environment, the logic of previous years was seen to be too technical and to have a distorting influence on language and argumentation.1
