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A definition may be overthrown on two
grounds: it may be false or it may be too narrow.
There is indeed a possible third ground, namely
irrelevance, but this is a fault which no one save a
fool will commit.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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