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syllogism, others an incomplete syllogism, because its parts are not so clearly defined or of the same number as those of the regular syllogism, since such precision is not specially required by the orator. Valgius See III. i. 18. A rhetorician of the reign of Augustus. translates ἐπιχείρημα by aggressio,
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that is an attempt. It would however, in my opinion, be truer to say that it is not our handling of the subject, but the thing itself which we attempt which should be called an ἐπιχείρημα, that is to say the argument by which we try to prove something and which, even if it has not yet been stated in so many words, has been clearly conceived by the mind.
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Others regard it not as an attempted or imperfect proof, but a complete proof, falling under the most special The last or lowest species. p. § 56 and VII. i. 23. species of proof; consequently, according to its proper and most generally received appellation it must be understood in the sense of a definite conception of some thought consisting of at least three parts. i.e. the major and minor premisses and the conclusion. See v. xiv. 6 sqq. Some call an ἐπιχείρημα a reason,
