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 Snider, Denton Jaques
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 Mansel, Henry Longueville
The learned term the rhetorical device an ignoratio elenchi.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John
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 Holland, Thomas Erskine, Sir
Mr. Mill concludes this chapter with another instance of that ignoratio elenchi which has been so abundantly manifested throughout his previous criticisms.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville
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
