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 1      I, 2 |     themselves more clearly.~A statement is persuasive and credible
 2      I, 2 |       the same relation to the statement it supports as the particular
 3      I, 2 |        that, if the particular statement is true, is irrefutable.
 4      I, 2 |      is refutable, even if the statement about the fast breathing
 5      I, 2 |    rhetoric or dialectic. This statement will be clearer if expressed
 6      I, 9 |        form of words. Thus the statement "A man should be proud not
 7      I, 13|     these. If, then, a precise statement is impossible and yet legislation
 8     II, 21|       defined a maxim. It is a statement; not a particular fact,
 9     II, 21|      Proof is needed where the statement is paradoxical or disputable;
10     II, 21| supplement is wanted where the statement contains nothing paradoxical,
11     II, 21|       previous clause. Where a statement, without being paradoxical,
12     II, 21|        already said, a general statement and people love to hear
13     II, 24|       process, we make a final statement as if it were the conclusion
14     II, 24|      details that make up this statement. There is also the argument
15     II, 25|  attacking your opponent’s own statement, or by putting forward another
16     II, 25|        putting forward another statement like it, or by putting forward
17     II, 25|        or by putting forward a statement contrary to it, or by quoting
18     II, 25|  attacking your opponent’s own statement" I mean, for instance, this:
19     II, 25|   either by making the general statement that "all want is an evil",
20     II, 25|     objection "from a contrary statement" is raised when, for instance,
21     II, 25|      an objection "from a like statement" is, the enthymeme having
22     II, 25|     more usually true than the statement attacked. It may do so in
23    III, 13|      only use of a preliminary statement is the proof that follows
24    III, 13|       first part is called the Statement of the case, the second
25    III, 13|      parts of a speech are the Statement and the Argument. These
26    III, 13|        more than Introduction, Statement, Argument, and Epilogue. "
27    III, 14|        wanted beyond a summary statement of your subject, to put
28    III, 16|        such, has to do.~If any statement you make is hard to believe,