elenchus
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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
The elenchus comes soon or late, but it always comes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 by Various
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
Define and illustrate:—Paralogism, ignoratio elenchi, fallacia accidentis, argumentum ad verecundiam, illicit process, undistributed middle, etc.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
His whole paper is an ignoratio elenchi, and he doesn't touch a single one of my positions.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
An ignoratio elenchi more flagrant—a mistaking of the question more palpable—it is surely not possible to conceive.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
The learned term the rhetorical device an ignoratio elenchi.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
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