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Even Cornelius
Celsus stated that there were two general bases, one
concerned with the question whether a thing is, the
other with the question of what kind it is. He included definition under the first of these, because
enquiry may equally be made as to whether sacrilege
has been committed, when a man denies that he
has stolen anything from a temple, and when he
admits that he has stolen private money from a
temple. He divides quality into fact and the letter
of the law. Under the head of the letter of the law he
places four classes, excluding questions of competence:1 quantity and intention he places under the
head of conjecture.2
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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