ONT Re: Verities Of Likely Stories
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VOLS. Note 11
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| But for purposes of demonstration, real or apparent, just as Dialectic possesses
| two modes of argument, induction and the syllogism, real or apparent, the same is
| the case in Rhetoric; for the example is induction, and the enthymeme a syllogism,
| and the apparent enthymeme an apparent syllogism. Accordingly I call an enthymeme
| a rhetorical syllogism, and an example rhetorical induction. Now all orators produce
| belief by employing as proofs either examples or enthymemes and nothing else; so that
| if, generally speaking, it is necessary to prove any fact whatever either by syllogism
| or by induction -- and that this is so is clear from the 'Analytics' -- each of the
| two former must be identical with each of the two latter. The difference between
| example and enthymeme is evident from the 'Topics', where, in discussing syllogism
| and induction, it has previously been said that the proof from a number of particular
| cases that such is the rule, is called in Dialectic induction, in Rhetoric example;
| but when, certain things being posited, something different results by reason of
| them, alongside of them, from their being true, either universally or in most
| cases, such a conclusion in Dialectic is called a syllogism, in Rhetoric an
| enthymeme.
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| Aristotle, "Art of Rhetoric", 1.2.8-9.
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| Aristotle, "The 'Art' of Rhetoric",
| John Henry Freese (trans.), in:
|'Aristotle, Volume 22', G.P. Goold (ed.),
| William Heinemann, London, UK, 1926, 1982.
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