Aristotle’s book on logical fallacies and how to defend against them. I will probably be revisiting this book for the rest of my life. Sophistry is still alive and well today and we should be prepared.

Trying to keep up with the Aristotle readings in my logic course at RTS has been a tad difficult. The Categories wasn't terribly difficult, but On Interpretation was harder. Then Prior Analytics came along, and I only made it about sixty pages in. I never even picked up Posterior Analytics. In all t

I have rated the great Aristotle so low because this is a very difficult book to read. If you really want to learn about sophistical refutations, it's probably best to find a Youtube video or bullet-point blog post.

I grund och botten samma sak som man vanligen hittar i argumentationsanalysgrundböcker. Den har inget egenvärde att läsa, men det är intressant att se att samma metoder som förordas idag var etablerade redan för 2300 år sedan.

Yes, I thought this book by Aristotle was great, really. Whereas the 'Topics' and 'Posterior Analytics' felt more like the pot pourri of Prior Analytics, the sophistical elenchii analyses the 'dialectical syllogism' or 'paralogism'. These paralogisms could include various sorts of different proposit

Como o próprio nome do livro diz, Aristóteles se concentra aqui em categorizar e refutar os diversos tipos de argumentos sofisticos, que se baseiam em falácias lógicas. Distingue os eristicos dos sofistas, os primeiros focam na vitória do debate, enquanto que os últimos almejam fama e fortuna, disto

This book has given rise to millennia of clear thinking and to millennia of confusion. Some scholars hold that Aristotle's writings were not as much books as teaching notes. We cut him slack for being the inventor of the modern idea of logic and really, the first scientist. This does not mean that h