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But others have
thought that there are only three rational bases,
covered by the questions whether a thing is, what it is,
and of what kind it is? Hermagoras is alone in
thinking that there are four, namely conjecture, particularity, competence, and quality: to the latter he
[p. 439]
appends the phrase κατὰ συμβεβηκός “according to
its accidents,” illustrating his meaning by putting a
case where it is enquired whether a man happen to
be good or bad. He then subdivides quality into
four species: first that which is concerned with
things to he sought or avoided, which belongs to deliberative oratory:
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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