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A different view was held by those who
likewise only admitted two bases, but made them
the negative and juridical. The negative basis is
identical with that which we call the conjectural, to
which some give the name of negative absolutely,
others only in part, these latter holding that conjecture is employed by the accuser, denial only by the
accused.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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