[7]
For every question has
its basis, since every question is based on assertion by
one party and denial by another. But there are some
questions which form an essential part of causes, and
it is on these that we have to express an opinion;
while others are introduced from without and are,
strictly speaking, irrelevant, although they may
contribute something of a subsidiary nature to the
general contention. It is for this reason that there
are said to be several questions in one matter of
dispute.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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