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In dialectics, syllogism should be employed in reasoning against
dialecticians rather than against the crowd: |
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If one has made an induction on the strength of several cases and
yet the answerer refuses to grant the universal proposition, then it
is fair to demand his objection. |
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Whenever it is possible to reason to the same conclusion either
through or without a reduction per impossibile, if one is
demonstrating and not arguing dialectically it makes no difference
which method of reasoning be adopted, but in argument with another
reasoning per impossibile should be avoided. |
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One should put forward all propositions that hold true of several
cases, and to which either no objection whatever appears or at least
not any on the surface: |
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The conclusion should not be put in the form of a question; |
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Not every universal question can form a dialectical proposition as
ordinarily understood, e.g. 'What is man?' |
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Any one who keeps on asking one thing for a long time is a bad
inquirer. |
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