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But in proportion as anyone
endeavors to make of Dialectic or Rhetoric, not what they are, faculties, but
sciences, to that extent he will, without knowing it, destroy their real nature,
in thus altering their character, by crossing over into the domain of
sciences1, whose
subjects are certain definite things, not merely words.
1 Taking εἰς ἐπιστήμας with μεταβαίνειν. If taken with ἐπισκευάζων, the sense will be: “by changing his ground （ μεταβαίνειν being used absolutely） while altering their characters from faculties to sciences.”
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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