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These
authorities like Aristotle hold that no question can
arise which does not come under one of these heads.
Some subtract two of them, namely number and opportunity, and substitute for what I have called action,
things, or in Greek πράγματα. I have thought it sufficient to notice these doctrines, for fear someone might
complain of their omission. Still I do not consider
that bases are sufficiently determined by these categories, nor that the latter cover every possible kind
of topic, as will be clear to any that read carefully
what I have to say on both points. For there will be
found to be many topics that are not covered by
these categories.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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