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

If, indeed, an opponent challenges the truth of the conclusion, and you adduce premisses necessarily containing it as a refutation, that is an ignoratio elenchi unless your opponent admits those premisses.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

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

Throw the ignoratio elenchi in his teeth, and, at once, you have him annihilated.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe

But others, by exhibiting what I may venture to describe as an ignoratio elenchi, have made it desirable to recall attention to the specific purport of my former letter.

From Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Sir Thomas Erskine Holland

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