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There is no difference between the epicheireme and
the syllogism, except that the latter has a number
of forms and infers truth from truth, whereas the
epicheireme is frequently concerned with statements
that are no more than credible. For if it were
always possible to prove controversial points from
admitted premises, the orator would have little to
do in this connexion.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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