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Similitudes* The second and the five fuUowing boolcs are taken up in enumerating the topics or heads of argument thai may be used in questions about the genus, the definition, the properties* and the accidents of a thing; and occasionally he introduces the topics for proving things to be the same, or difierent ; and the topics for proving one thing to be better or worse than another. In this enumeration of topics, Aristotle has shewn more the fertility of his genius, than the accuracy of method.... The writers of logic seem to be of this opinion : for I know none of them that has followed him closely upon this subject. They have considered the topic of argu- mentation as reducible to certain axioms. For instance, when the question is about the genus and species ; when it is about definition, it must be determined by some ax- iom relating to definition, and things defined : and so of other questions. They have therefore reduced the doc* Digitized byLjOOQlC MS A wtm jflMarr 0t trine of the toptei to eerUnn axionift or oiMM^ IMI* dii* posed tbote axkum in older under eortaui bMi4B« Tbis method Boems to be more ooninodknft «n4 el^ gnat than that of Aristotle, Yet H mnet be aokaowl* edged, that Aristotle has fiimished the maierials front «rhieh all the logicians have borrowed their doeteine of topics: and e?en Cieero, Qnintilian and olher rbotor- ieal writers, have been nuefa indebted to the topfes of Aristotle.
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