Ramist

In Ramist method, of which Fraunce was, of course, one of the leading Elizabethan exponents, the scientific explanation of any art always proceeds from the most general definition of a subject to its dichotomized parts.

Chapters 4 by Morgan and 5 by Ramist and Gloria Weiss focus on the predictive validity of the SAT over time.

(1) Although The Garden of Eloquence has traditionally been referred to as a 'treatise' having either marked 'Ramist' (2) or 'figurist' (3) inclinations--stepping into the shoes of Richard Sherry, Joannes Susenbrotus, or Dudley Fenner (4)--this apparent paradox in its classification indicates that, despite Peacham's obvious concern with elocutio, The Garden is more complex than has conventionally been assumed.

The next six essays are more varied in both subject and methodology--ranging from the philosophical problem of free will in a newly mechanical universe to the meanings implicit in the material conditions of early modern cultural production; from the influence of Ramist logic on angelic debate in Paradise Lost to the theological underpinning of Milton's political argument against licensing in the Areopagitica; from the nature and meaning of solitude in Paradise Regained to the truly bizarre history of Milton's defamation as a papist in Restoration polemics.

For example, two of the most common explanations given to explain why few Black students persist and achieve in weed-out systems are inadequate finances (Maton, et al., 2000; Astin, 1982, 1993), and deficient academic backgrounds (Maton et al., 2000; Willingham et al., 1990; Ramist et al., 1994; Elliot et al., 1995).

explanations of the earthquake based on Ramist or Aristotelian concepts.

Morgan and Ramist (1998) and Camara, Dorans, Morgan, and Myford (2000) report that grade equivalency studies compare college students' grades in introductory courses to students' performance on AP examinations.

On page 15, for example, she explains parenthetically that rhetors are "users of rhetoric," yet a few pages later one is in the thick of a discussion of Ramist ideas about "the confusion of dialectic and rhetoric." Inevitably in reading a study of rhetoric, one must assess the rhetorical skills of the author, and I found myself wishing that Bennett expected either more or less of me.