elenchus

The elenchus comes soon or late, but it always comes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 by Various

It is the leaven working in the Sophists with their subtle rhetoric, in Socrates with his negating elenchus, in Plato with his confounding dialectic.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider

Mr. Mill concludes this chapter with another instance of that ignoratio elenchi which has been so abundantly manifested throughout his previous criticisms.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel

It would therefore be an ignoratio elenchi to allow oneself to be disposed of in such a manner.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders

To prove this is an ignoratio elenchi; what the Sophist undertakes to prove is that Achilles will never overtake it, and he really proves that Achilles passes it between the 111th and 112th yards.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

Define and illustrate:—Paralogism, ignoratio elenchi, fallacia accidentis, argumentum ad verecundiam, illicit process, undistributed middle, etc.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

But you cannot very well say to an infant of three, "You are now being guilty of an undistributed middle or a petitio elenchi or whatever it is."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various