书城公版On Sophistical Refutations
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第27章

Accentuation gives rise to no fallacious arguments, either as written or as spoken, except perhaps some few that might be made up;e.g.the following argument.'Is ou katalueis a house?' 'Yes.' 'Is then ou katalueis the negation of katalueis?' 'Yes.' 'But you said that ou katalueis is a house: therefore the house is a negation.' How one should solve this, is clear: for the word does not mean the same when spoken with an acuter and when spoken with a graver accent.