Arguments

Bhikkhus, these four are arguments. What four?

Bhikkhus, there is an argument which concludes according to the meaning not the letters.

There is an argument which concludes according to the letters not the meaning. There is an argument which concludes according to the meaning and the letters. There is an argument which concludes neither according to the meaning nor the letters.

Bhikkhus, these four are arguments.

Bhikkhus, it is not possible that an argument could be concluded according to meanings and letters endowed with reasons, conditions, causal relations and intended meaning.