Aristotle's treatise on dialectical reasoning — the art of arguing from generally accepted opinions (endoxa) to conclusions — providing a handbook for philosophical debate.
The Topics provides a systematic inventory of argument forms and strategies for dialectical debate; the method of endoxa (testing philosophical positions against common opinion) is the starting point for Aristotelian ethical and political inquiry.
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