X.

If you observe that your opponent designedly returns a negative answer

to the questions which, for the sake of your proposition, you want

him to answer in the affirmative, you must ask the converse of the

proposition, as though it were that which you were anxious to see

affirmed; or, at any rate, you may give him his choice of both, so

that he may not perceive which of them you are asking him to affirm.

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