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Examples are best suited to deliberative oratory
and enthymemes to forensic. The first is concerned with the future, so that its
examples must be derived from the past; the second with the question of the
existence or non-existence of facts, in which demonstrative and necessary proofs
are more in place; for the past involves a kind of necessity.1
1 It is irrevocable, and it is possible to discuss it with some degree of certainty, whereas the future is quite uncertain, and all that can be done is to draw inferences from the past.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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