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With regard to the amplificalion produced by
reasoning, we must consider whether reasoning quite
expresses my meaning. I am not a stickler for
exact terminology, provided the sense is clear to
any serious student. My motive in using this term
was, however, this, that this form of amplification
produces its effect at a point other than that where
it is actually introduced. One thing is magnified
in order to effect a corresponding augmentation elsewhere, and it is by reasoning that our hearers are
then led on from the first point to the second which
we desire to emplasise.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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