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Aristotle, Rhetoric (ed. J. H. Freese), book 2, chapter 24 (search)
ince a thing which is not the same as
another often appears to be the same, one may adopt the more convenient
alternative. Such was the argument of Euthydemus, to prove, for example, that a
man knows that there is a trireme in the Piraeus, because he knows the existence of two things, the
Piraeus and the trireme;Very obscure and no explanation is
satisfactory. The parallel passage in Aristot. Sophist. Elenchi 20.6
is: “Do you being in Sicily now know that there aPiraeus and the trireme;Very obscure and no explanation is
satisfactory. The parallel passage in Aristot. Sophist. Elenchi 20.6
is: “Do you being in Sicily now know that there are triremes in the Piraeus?” The ambiguity lies
in the position of “now,” whether it is to be taken with
“in Sicily” or
with “in the Piraeus.” At the moment when a man is in Sicily he cannot know that there are at
this time triremes in the Piraeus; but being in Sicily he can certainly know of the ships in the Piraeus, which should be there, but
are now in Sicily
（Kirchmann）. St. Hilaire suggests that the two clauses
are: Do you now, being