XL.

If you make an induction, and your opponent grants you the particular

cases by which it is to be supported, you must refrain from asking him

if he also admits the general truth which issues from the particulars,

but introduce it afterwards as a settled and admitted fact; for, in

the meanwhile, he will himself come to believe that he has admitted

it, and the same impression will be received by the audience, because

they will remember the many questions as to the particulars, and

suppose that they must, of course, have attained their end.

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