things, seeing the difference betwixt negatives and affirmatives is only this, that in the former the subject is affirmed by a negative name, and by a positive in the latter, it is superfluous to consider any other _mood_ in direct _figure_, besides that, in which all the propositions are both universal and affirmative. [Sidenote: What is in the mind answering to a syllogism.] 8. The thoughts in the mind answering to a direct syllogism, proceed in this manner; first, there is conceived a phantasm of the thing named, with that accident or quality thereof, for which it is in the minor proposition called by that name which is the subject; next, the mind has a phantasm of the same thing with that accident, or quality, for which it hath the name, that in the same proposition is the predicate; thirdly, the thought returns of the same thing as having that accident in it, for which it is called by the name, that is the predicate of the major proposition; and lastly, remembering that all those are the accidents of one and the same thing, it concludes that those three names are also names of one and the same thing; that is to say, the conclusion is true. For example, when this syllogism is made, _man is a living creature_, _a living creature is a body_, therefore, _man is a body_, the mind conceives first an image of a man speaking or discoursing, and remembers that that, which so appears, is called _man_; then it has the image of the same man moving, and remembers that that, which appears so, is called _living creature_; thirdly, it conceives an image of the same man, as filling some place or space, and remembers that what appears so is called _body_; and lastly, when it remembers that that thing, which was extended, and moved and spake, was one and the same thing, it concludes that the three names, _man_, _living creature_, and _body_, are names of the same thing, and that therefore _man is a living creature_ is a true proposition. From whence it is manifest, that living creatures that have not the use of speech, have no conception or thought in the mind, answering to a syllogism made of universal propositions; seeing it is necessary to think not only of the thing, but also by turns to remember the divers names, which for divers considerations thereof are applied to the same. [Sidenote: The first indirect figure how made.] 9. The rest of the figures arise either from the inflexion, or inversion of the first or direct figure; which is done by changing the major, or minor, or both the propositions, into converted propositions equipollent to them.