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I am
content to treat this type of argument as a genus
without going further; others however divide it into
species. For we may argue from several things to
one or from one thing to several; hence arguments
such as “What has happened once may happen
often.” We may also argue from a part to a whole,
from genus to species, from that which contains to
that which is contained, from the difficult to the
easy, from the remote to the near, and similarly
from the opposites of all these to their opposites.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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