[96]
When I speak of fictitious arguments
I mean the proposition of something which, if true,
would either solve a problem or contribute to its
solution, and secondly the demonstration of the
similarity of our hypothesis to the case under consideration. To make this the more readily intelligible to youths who have not yet left school, I will
first of all illustrate it by examples of a kind familiar
to the young.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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