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In all cases, however, in which we enquire into the
nature and meaning of an act, and which can be
considered by themselves apart from all considerations of persons and all else that gives rise to the
actual cause, there are clearly three points to which
we must give attention, namely Whether it is, What
it is and Of what kind it is. But as there are certain “places”1 of argument which are common to
all three questions, this triple division is impracticable and we must therefore consider these questions rather in connexion with those “places” in
which they most naturally arise.
1 See above § 20.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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