CHAPTER XXVIII.

AMPLIFICATION AND EXTENUATION ARE NOT COMMON PLACES. ENTHYMEMES, BY WHICH ARGUMENTS ARE ANSWERED, ARE THE SAME WITH THOSE BY WHICH THE MATTER IN QUESTION IS PROVED OR DISPROVED. OBJECTIONS ARE NOT ENTHYMEMES.

The first, that _amplification_ and _extenuation_ are not _common places_, appears by this, that amplification and extenuation do prove a fact to be _great_ or _little_; and are therefore enthymemes to be _drawn from_ common places, and therefore are not the _places_ themselves.

The second, that enthymemes, by which arguments are answered, are of the same kind with those by which the matter in question is proved, is manifest by this, that these infer the opposite of what was proved by the other.

The third, that an _objection_ is no _enthymeme_, is apparent by this, that an _objection_ is no more but an _opinion_, _example_, or other _instance_, produced to make appear that the adversary’s argument does not conclude.

Thus much of _examples_, _sentences_, _enthymemes_, and generally of all things that belong to _argumentation_; from what _places_ they may be drawn or answered.

There remain _elocution_ and _disposition_ to be spoken of in the next book.

BOOK III.

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