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will be a noteworthy feature of Ramism. (p. xv)
The manuscript culture had not been able to duplicate
visual knowledge on a mass scale and was less tempted to seek
the means of reducing non-visual processes of mind to
diagrams. Yet, even so, there is steady pressure in the later
scholasticism to strip language to a kind of neuter
mathematical counters. The “nominalists” were those who
specialized in the logical treatises of Peter of Spain. The
opening words of his Summulae have a ring, as Ong notes (p.
60), that would be familiar at any time from Cicero to Emerson:
“Dialectic is the art of arts and the science of sciences,
possessing the way to the principles of all curriculum subjects.
For dialectic alone disputes with probability concerning the
principles of all other arts, and thus dialectic must be the first
science to be acquired.” The humanists, especially after printing