As far as understanding analytic methodologies was concerned, the humanist repudiation of scholastic logic muddied the waters.
While the Utopians are baffled by scholastic logic, like good humanists they are keenly interested in moral philosophy and the nature of the happy life, which is one reason why they are so dedicated to learning Greek.
The main idea was that decisions would be made by Kirk, while he was advised by Bones, a humanist, and Spock, a creature of pure logic.
Ramus was a savage critic of Aristotle, and proposed to replace the subtleties and complexities of Aristotelian logic with the single method of humanist dialectic, conceived as the means of systematizing knowledge to facilitate learning and its practical use.
While, for Ramus, Petrus Hispanus' Summulae was like a red rag to a bull, he willingly admitted that he had learned a great deal from a more recent book on logic, De inventione libri tres by the Dutch humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443 1485).
This was the reason why Aristotelians wanted the study of logic to start with what Cicero and the humanists often called iudicium or judgment, to be learned from the Categories, On Interpretation and the two Analytics, before the student went on to the Topics.
The close connection between inventio, as a part of logic, and the art of rhetoric made it seem, however, as if humanists could not separate the two disciplines.
He lectured on Hebrew, Greek, Latin, logic, and rhetoric; showed excellence as a philologist in many editions; and advocated education on humanist lines (Zürich school reform, 1765 75).
Humanists regarded it as a practical way to investigate questions on which dialectical argumentation based on logic had proved unable to produce certitude.
Vives' career as a leading northern European humanist starts with the publication in 1519 of In pseudodialecticos, a satirical diatribe in which he voices his opposition to scholastic logic on several counts.
