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There are also a number who are in doubt as to
a form of defence which I may exemplify as follows:
“If I murdered him, I did right; but I did not
murder him.”1 What, they ask, is the value of the
first part, if the second can be proved, since they are
mutually inconsistent, and if anyone employs both
arguments, we should believe neither? This contention is partially justified; we should employ the
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second alone only if the fact can be proved without
a doubt.
1 See III. vi 10.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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