title: New English File: Intermediate: Workbook
author: Clive Oxenden
description: Clive Oxenden has taught English and trained teachers for 23 years, mainly in Spain but also in Turkey, Kuwait, Algeria, and the UK, where he was the RSA tutor at Padworth College in Berkshire. He has spent the last fifteen years teaching at the British Council, Valencia.
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  [Book I  
    
  ](Topics_split_001.html#filepos1667)[Book II  
    
  ](Topics_split_001.html#filepos52893)[Book III  
    
  ](Topics_split_002.html#filepos98041)[Book IV  
    
  ](Topics_split_002.html#filepos129007)[Book V  
    
  ](Topics_split_002.html#filepos180325)[Book VI  
    
  ](Topics_split_003.html#filepos251044)[Book VII  
    
  ](Topics_split_003.html#filepos325668)[Book VIII  
    
  ](Topics_split_003.html#filepos348283)[Book IX  
    
  ](topics.htm#aix)[Book X  
    
  ](topics.htm#ax)[Book XI
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Topics
  
  
  ### Aristotle
  
  
  ##### translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ###  Book I
  
  
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  OUR treatise proposes to find a line of inquiry whereby we shall
  
  
  be able to reason from opinions that are generally accepted about
  
  
  every problem propounded to us, and also shall ourselves, when
  
  
  standing up to an argument, avoid saying anything that will obstruct
  
  
  us. First, then, we must say what reasoning