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
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
Perhaps it might be said that in arguing, "All men are mortal, and you are a man," it is not so much ignoratio elenchi as petitio principii that you commit.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
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
The Asparas are pleased with Bombax malabaricum, and the Gandharvas with Jasminum, the Terminalia chebula increases the number of servants, and the Mimusops elenchi gives maid-servants.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
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
