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For proof and credibility are not
merely the result of logical processes, but may
equally be secured by inartificial arguments. Now
I have already1 distinguished signs or, as he prefers
to call them, indications from arguments. Consequently, since an argument is a process of reasoning
[p. 209]
which provides proof and enables one thing to be
inferred from another and confirms facts which are
uncertain by reference to facts which are certain,
there must needs be something in every case which
requires no proof.
1 v. ix. 2.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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