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[Footnote 1: The prison was called "Bocardo" because, like the mood known as "Bocardo" in the syllogism, it was difficult to get out of.]
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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Aristotle proves Darapti (An.Pr. I. 6, 28a22-26) and mentions that Bocardo is provable by ekthesis (An.Pr. I. 6, 28b20-21).
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Baroco and Bocardo, which he proved in the assertoric case through impossibility: attempting to use that method here would require him to take the denial of a necessary O proposition as hypothesis, raising the complication noted above, and he must resort to a different form of proof instead.
Aristotle's Logic Smith, Robin 2007
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He then observes that since he has already shown how to reduce all the particular deductions in the other figures except Baroco and Bocardo to
Aristotle's Logic Smith, Robin 2007
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When he stood at the stake without the Bocardo-gate, Oxford, with Dr. Ridley, and fire was putting to the pile of fagots, he raised his eyes benignantly towards heaven, and said, "God is faithful, who doth not suffer us to be tempted above our strength."
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Dr. Ridley, as he passed Bocardo, looked up to see Dr. Cranmer, but the latter was then engaged in disputation with a friar.
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He was first sent to the Tower, and afterward, at Oxford, was consigned to the common prison of Bocardo, with archbishop Cranmer and Mr. Latimer.
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From Bocardo, the town prison, they are led to separate confinement in other parts of the city.
Oxford Frederick Douglas How 1907
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They pass along what is now called Cornmarket St.eet, and under the Bocardo gateway, where is St. Michael's Church, and as they get close beneath the prison each casts a look upwards if he should see Archbishop Cranmer at the window.
Oxford Frederick Douglas How 1907
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He confessed that it was to visit the poor prisoners shut up for debt in Bocardo.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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