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But this is peculiar, or most proper, to dialectic: for since it is examinative with respect to the principles of all the sciences, it has a way to proceed.
Aristotle's Logic Smith, Robin 2007
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But with all this indecision of exterior the expression is rather acute than soft; and the conversation in its principal characteristics, analytical and examinative; throwing out no thought which is not as clear as glass -- critical, in fact, in somewhat of an austere sense.
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But with all this indecision of exterior the expression is rather acute than soft; and the conversation in its principal characteristics, analytical and examinative; throwing out no thought which is not as clear as glass ” critical, in fact, in somewhat of an austere sense.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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