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Pierre Ramus (1515–1572)
Ramus, Pierre (rä-müs’). A French logician; born at Cuth, Vermandois, 1515; was assassinated in the massacre of St. Bartholomew, Aug. 1572. He distinguished himself at twenty-one, upon the occasion of taking his degree, by defending the thesis that “all that Aristotle taught is false.” He followed this with ‘Criticism of Aristotelian Dialectic’ (1543), written in Latin; and with his ‘Dialectic,’ a French version of his system, the first work of the kind published in the French language. His literary activity produced in all fifty-nine works, all but nine of which appeared before his death. They include treatises on arithmetic, geometry, and algebra.