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
But others, by exhibiting what I may venture to describe as an ignoratio elenchi, have made it desirable to recall attention to the specific purport of my former letter.
From Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Sir Thomas Erskine Holland
Define and illustrate:—Paralogism, ignoratio elenchi, fallacia accidentis, argumentum ad verecundiam, illicit process, undistributed middle, etc.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
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
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
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
