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
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
The whole of Mr. Mansel’s argument for the inconceivability of the Infinite and of the Absolute is one long ignoratio elenchi.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
He would not be so humorous about Zeus, nor fall into an ignoratio elenchi.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
The ignoratio elenchi is in his own mind.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
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
