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the conjectural, definitive, qualitative, quantitative and
relative. Theodorus, also, as I have said,1 adopts the
same number of general heads, whether a thing is, what
it is, of what kind it is, how great it is, and to what it refers.
The last he considers to be chiefly concerned with
comparison, since better and worse, greater and less
[p. 437]
are meaningless terms unless referred to some
standard.
1 ยง 36.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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