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The act itself again
sometimes involves a single question, as, for example,
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whether a man is dead, and sometimes two, as, for
instance, whether he died of poison or of some internal
disease. Another form of conjecture is concerned
with the act alone, it being admitted that if the
act was really committed, there can be no doubt as
to its author. A third form is concerned solely with
the author, the act being admitted and the dispute
turning on the question as to who committed it.
This third form is complex.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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