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Ambiguous questions should be answered by
defining them by a regular explanation, and not too concisely; those that appear
likely to make us contradict ourselves should be solved at once in the answer,
before the adversary has time to ask the next question or to draw a conclusion;
for it is not difficult to see the drift of his argument. Both this, however,
and the means of answering will be sufficiently clear from the
Topics.1
1 Aristot. Top. 8.4.
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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