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Thus from these three bases we
get three resemblances of bases: sometimes simple,
sometimes complex, but all having a character of their
own, as, for instance, when questions of the letter of
the law and its intention are involved, for these clearly
come under conjecture or quality; or again where the
syllogism is involved, for this is specially connected
with quality; or where contradictory laws are involved,
for these are on the same footing as the letter of the
law and intention; or yet again in cases of ambiguity,
which is always resolved by conjecture.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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