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
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
Mr. Mill had better be cautious in talking about 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 learned term the rhetorical device an ignoratio elenchi.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
Throw the ignoratio elenchi in his teeth, and, at once, you have him annihilated.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
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