Cruelty evokes fear, which is more useful than love when it comes to ruling. Ramus lived in the academic environment, Unversity of Paris. By 1536, he had condemned all of Aristotle's works as vain. Return to Plato. Takes inventio and dispositio from rhetoric.
Leaves rhetoric with style, memory, and delivery only.
C. These then led to proposition building and eventually syllogism building. English Renaissance I. 1530, Leonard Cox publishes The Arte and Crafte of Rhetoric. Richard Sherry publishes his Treatise on Schemes and Tropes in 1550. I. Epistemology is the study of how we come to know things, how are mind works. Inquire and invent.