ONT Re: Verities Of Likely Stories
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VOLS. Note 16
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| We have said that example ['paradeigma', analogy] is a kind of induction and with
| what kind of material it deals by way of induction. It is neither the relation
| of part to whole, nor of whole to part, nor of one whole to another whole, but
| of part to part, of like to like, when both come under the same genus, but one
| of them is better known than the other. For example, to prove that Dionysius
| is aiming at a tyranny, because he asks for a bodyguard, one might say that
| Pisistratus before him and Theagenes of Megara did the same, and when they
| obtained what they asked for made themselves tyrants. All the other
| tyrants known may serve as an example of Dionysius, whose reason,
| however, for asking for a bodyguard we do not yet know. All these
| examples are contained under the same universal proposition, that
| one who is aiming at a tyranny asks for a bodyguard.
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| Aristotle, "Art of Rhetoric", 1.2.19
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| Aristotle, "The 'Art' of Rhetoric",
| John Henry Freese (trans.), in:
|'Aristotle, Volume 22', G.P. Goold (ed.),
| William Heinemann, London, UK, 1926, 1982.
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