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In the pinned Butcher text of XIX and XXII, which statements can be attributed to Aristotle as translated, which are edition or translator apparatus, and where does the text defer or fail to define terms it uses?

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Four kinds of material need separating when quoting XIX and XXII. (1) Aristotle as translated: the Thought list, the incident/speech rule, the clear-without-mean ideal, the riddle/jargon failures. (2) Edition apparatus whose author the file does not name: the contents list, with 'Intellectual element' and 'elevation of language with perspicuity', neither of which appears in the chapter bodies. (3) Translator conventions the file does not explain: the parenthetical '(or rare)' after 'strange', square brackets around XX and parts of XXI, a placeholder for 'ornamental word', and Greek rendered as letter names. (4) Deferrals and an internal wobble: XIX defers to the Rhetoric and to Delivery, and VI gives two differently worded definitions of Diction. No claim here depends on the Greek, which was not read.

Four kinds of material need separating when quoting XIX and XXII. (1) Aristotle as translated: the Thought list, the incident/speech rule, the clear-without-mean ideal, the riddle/jargon failures. (2) Edition apparatus whose author the file does not name: the contents list, with 'Intellectual element' and 'elevation of language with perspicuity', neither of which appears in the chapter bodies. (3) Translator conventions the file does not explain: the parenthetical '(or rare)' after 'strange', square brackets around XX and parts of XXI, a placeholder for 'ornamental word', and Greek rendered as letter names. (4) Deferrals and an internal wobble: XIX defers to the Rhetoric and to Delivery, and VI gives two differently worded definitions of Diction. No claim here depends on the Greek, which was not read. Curator qualifications: Separating translator and edition apparatus from Aristotle is a useful attribution caution; provenance of the brackets is unverified. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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  • [inference] Four kinds of material need separating when quoting XIX and XXII. (1) Aristotle as translated: the Thought list, the incident/speech rule, the clear-without-mean ideal, the riddle/jargon failures. (2) Edition apparatus whose author the file does not name: the contents list, with 'Intellectual element' and 'elevation of language with perspicuity', neither of which appears in the chapter bodies. (3) Translator conventions the file does not explain: the parenthetical '(or rare)' after 'strange', square brackets around XX and parts of XXI, a placeholder for 'ornamental word', and Greek rendered as letter names. (4) Deferrals and an internal wobble: XIX defers to the Rhetoric and to Delivery, and VI gives two differently worded definitions of Diction. No claim here depends on the Greek, which was not read. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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