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This may be done in many ways,
and constitutes a form of argument by elimination,
whereby we show sometimes that the whole is false,
sometimes that only that which remains alter the
process of elimination is true. An example of the
first of these two cases would be: “You say that you
lent him money. Either you possessed it yourself, received it from another, found it or stole it. If you did
not possess it, receive it from another, find or steal it,
you did not lend it to him.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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