“
[94]
” Well, then, to give a brief
summary of the whole question, arguments are
drawn from persons, causes, place and time (which
latter we have divided into preceding, contemporary
and subsequent), from resources (under which we
include instruments), from manner (that is, how a
thing has been done), from definition, genus, species,
difference, property, elimination, division, beginnings, increase, consummation, likes, unlikes, contradictions, consequents, efficients, effects, results,
and comparison, which is subdivided into several
species.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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