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Another topic, appropriate to refutation,
consists in examining contradictories, whether in dates, actions, or words,
first, separately in the case of the adversary, for instance, “he says
that he loves you, and yet he conspired with the Thirty;” next,
separately in your own case, “he says that I am litigious, but he
cannot
prove that I have ever brought an action
against anyone”; lastly, separately in the case of your adversary and
yourself together: “he has never yet lent anything, but I have
ransomed many of you.”
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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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