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. Examine and judge. Recall ideas and maintain custody over them.
Simple ideas are the raw material of all knowledge.
They are obtained by the senses. This primacy is corrupted by language, society, and culture. Rhetoric interferes when it builds illusions. Linking ideas to reveal similarities. Abstraction of ideas.