It is also a fault in deduction when a man proves something through a long chain of steps, when he might employ fewer steps and those already included in his argument: suppose him to be showing (e.g.) that one opinion is more properly so called from another, and suppose him to postulate that a thing itself is most properly called that thing and that there genuinely exists an object of opinion in itself, so that it is more properly called an object of opinion than the particular objects of opinion; now what is called such and such relative to what is more properly called so