Our purpose at this point is to address another issue. The discussion will proceed in four stations: two negative and two affirmative.

The first pair are as follows:

1. Their claim that the sought-after conception can be obtained only through definition.
2. Their claim that the sought-after assent can be obtained only through syllogism.

The second pair consider:
3. Whether definition actually yields knowledge of conceptions.
4. Whether syllogism—or the type of demonstration they commend—actually yields knowledge of assents.