Saturday, November 20, 2004
Kimball and Aristotle
In a fine essay on Lichtenberg, Roger Kimball defined aphorisms as "insights shorn of supporting ratiocination." Aristotle in his treatise on Rhetoric 2.21.2 (1394 a, tr. John Henry Freese) said something similar: "Maxims are the premises or conclusions of enthymemes without the syllogism."
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