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Earlier writers, among them Aristotle himself and
Theodectes, hold that there are but three, verbs,
nouns and convictions. Their view was that the
force of language resided in the verbs, and the
matter in the nouns (for the one is what we speak,
the other that which we speak about), while the
duty of the convinctions was to provide a link
between the nouns and the verbs. I know that
conjunction is the term in general use. But conviction
seems to me to be the more accurate translation of
the Greek .
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