[8]
even though they
adopt a new name, so these artifices will produce
exactly the same effect, whether they are styled
tropes or figures, since their values lie not in their
names, but in their effect. Similarly it makes no
difference whether we call a basis conjectural or
negative, or concerned with fact or substance,1 provided always that we know that the subject of
enquiry is the same.
1 See III. vi. 15, 39.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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