Note 74 — Chapter IX · TOPICA. I.
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Topic. I. xviii. p. 108, b. 27: ὥστε τὸ κοινὸν ἐπὶ πάντων γένος ἀποδίδοντες δόξομεν οὐκ ἀλλοτρίως ὁρίζεσθαι. It will be recollected that all the work of Dialectic (as Aristotle tells us often) has reference to δόξα and not to scientific truth. “We shall seem to define not in a manner departing from the reality of the subject” is, therefore, an appropriate dialectic artifice.