Examination of clinchers and causes for rebuke 1. The occasions
for rebuke are the following: (I) hurting the proposition, (2)
shifting the proposition, (3) opposing the proposition, 4)
renouncing the proposition, (5) shifting the reason, (6)
shifting the topic, (7) the meaningless, (8) the
unintelligible,, (9) the incoherent, (10) the inopportune, (11)
saying too little, (12) saying too much, (13) repetition, (14)
silence, (15) ignorance, (16) non ingenuity, (17) evasion, (18)
admission of an opinion, (19) overlooking the censurable, (20)
censuring the non censurable, (21) deviating from a tenet, and
(22) the semblance of a reason. 2. “Hurting the proposition”
occurs when one admits in one’s own example the character of a
counter example. 3. “Shifting the proposition” arises [when]
upon the instance of one’s proposition being opposed one defends
it by importing a new character to one’s example and counter
example. 4. “Opposing the proposition” occurs when the
proposition and its reason are opposed to each ot