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Aristotle ''Topics'' I.

Now reasoning is an argument in which, certain things being laid down,
something other than these necessarily comes about through them. (a)
It is a 'demonstration', when the premisses from which the reasoning
starts are true and primary, or are such that our knowledge of them
has originally come through premisses which are primary and true:
(b) reasoning, on the other hand, is 'dialectical', if it reasons
from opinions that are generally accepted. Things are 'true' and 'primary'
which are believed on the strength not of anything else but of themselves:
for in regard to the first principles of science it is improper to
ask any further for the why and wherefore of them; each of the first
principles should command belief in and by itself. On the other hand,
those opinions are 'generally accepted' which are accepted by every
one or by the majority or by the philosophers-i.e. by all, or by the
majority, or by the most notable and illustrious of them.

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Edward Ockham: Created page with "Aristotle ''Topics'' I. Now reasoning is an argument in which, certain things being laid down, something other than these necessarily comes about through them. (a) It is a 'demo..."