Lastly, her Imperial Majesty being desirous to know what progress her logicians had made in the art of disputing, commanded them to argue upon several themes or subjects; which they did; and having made a very nice discourse of logistical terms and propositions, entered into a dispute by way of syllogistical arguments, through all the figures and modes: One began with an argument of the first mode of the first figure, thus:

Every politician is wise:

Every knave is a politician,

Therefore every knave is wise.

Every politician is wise: Every knave is a politician, Therefore every knave is wise.