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Consequently the syllogism, to which
I shall return later, is virtually a weaker form of
definition, since while definition seeks to determine
whether one thing has the same name as another,
syllogism seeks to determine whether one thing is
to be regarded as identical with another.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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