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All conjecture is concerned either with facts
or intention. Each of these may occur in one of
three times, past, present or future. Questions
concerning facts are either general or definite, that
is to say, those which involve consideration of
persons and those which do not.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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