The Aristotelian Topics

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While the influence of the Aristotelian topoi has been rather extensive in our western tradition, particularly in literature, it does seem that their methodology has not been fully understood. A number of factors have contributed to this: the absence in Aristotle of a forthright and formal discussion of what he has in mind, the neglect of the methodology after Aristotle, a partially misdirected emphasis given to the method by Cicero, one of the first to concern himself with the topics, and the continuation of the Ciceronian interpretation by Quintilian with whom it passed into the Middle Ages and the stream of our western tradition.

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