elenchus
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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
The Tál is injurious to children, and the Mimusops elenchi productive of large families.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
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
Define and illustrate:—Paralogism, ignoratio elenchi, fallacia accidentis, argumentum ad verecundiam, illicit process, undistributed middle, etc.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
To deny or ridicule any of these beliefs on physical grounds is to commit the fallacy of ignoratio elenchi.
From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart
He would not be so humorous about Zeus, nor fall into an ignoratio elenchi.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
