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Aristotle
Rhetoric Section 10
Section 499 of 882
Canonical reference 2.22.10
Ancient Greek
ὥστʼ ἐπειδὴ καὶ πάντες οὕτω φαίνονται ἀποδεικνύντες, ἐάν τε ἀκριβέστερον ἐάν τε μαλακώτερον συλλογίζωνται (οὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἁπάντων λαμβάνουσιν ἀλλʼ ἐκ τῶν περὶ ἕκαστον ὑπαρχόντων), καὶ διὰ τοῦ λόγου δῆλον ὅτι ἀδύνατον ἄλλως δεικνύναι, φανερὸν ὅτι ἀναγκαῖον, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς Τοπικοῖς, πρῶτον περὶ ἕκαστον ἔχειν ἐξειλεγμένα περὶ τῶν ἐνδεχομένων καὶ τῶν ἐπικαιροτάτων,
English
J. H. Freese, 1926
Therefore, since it is evident that all men follow this procedure in demonstration, whether they reason strictly or loosely - since they do not derive their arguments from all things indiscriminately, but from what is inherent in each particular subject, and reason makes it clear that it is impossible to prove anything in any other way - it is evidently necessary, as has been stated in the Topics , to have first on each subject a selection of premises about probabilities and what is most suitable.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
Ainsi donc, puisqu'il est évident que tous les hommes suivent cette procédure dans la démonstration, qu'ils raisonnent avec rigueur ou sans rigueur, puisqu'ils ne tirent pas indistinctement leurs arguments de toutes choses, mais de ce qui est inhérent à chaque sujet particulier, et puisque la raison montre qu'il est impossible de rien prouver autrement, il est manifestement nécessaire, comme il a été dit dans les Topiques, de disposer d'abord, sur chaque sujet, d'un choix de prémisses concernant les probabilités et ce qui convient le mieux.
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