 This applies in various contexts, for example, when the questioner in a debate has the task of finding a syllogism to refute the responder’s claim; “the enquiry is always about a quaesitum whose syllogism has not yet been found” ([Debate] 45.6). In the poetical case the hearers have the task of finding a middle term that generates a poetic syllogism; in our example the middle term is “giving certainty”. And again, the premises yield the conclusion by imaginative suggestion, not by deduction.