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
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
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
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
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 Henry Longueville Mansel
The Tál is injurious to children, and the Mimusops elenchi productive of large families.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
