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involves a general question as to
the actual nature of a term, a question which may
conceivably have no connexion whatsoever with the
content of the case in point. In investigations as
to the letter and the intention, the dispute turns on
the provisions contained in the law, whereas the
syllogism deals with that which is not contained in
the law. In disputes arising out of ambiguity we
are led from the ambiguous phrase to its conflicting
meanings, whereas in the case of contrary laws the
fight starts from the conflict of their provisions.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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