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
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
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
It would therefore be an ignoratio elenchi to allow oneself to be disposed of in such a manner.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
The ignoratio elenchi is in his own mind.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
