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Sophistical Elenchi

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Sophistical Elenchi

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De Sophisticis Elenchis is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In De Sophisticis Elenchis Aristotle identifies 13 falacies. Verbal Fallacies are: Accent or Emphasis; Amphibology; Equivocation; Composition; Division and Figure of Speech. Material Fallacies are: Accident; Affirming the Consequent; Converse Accident; Irrelevant Conclusion; Begging the Question; False Cause and Fallacy of Many Questions.
Jimi'O 09/06/2024
Sophistical refutations is a guide for a student on how to form arguements and what to look out for; inparticular the art of the sophist, who is a charlatan who only knows how to trip you up.

All of this is pretty timeless advice and certainly - as dialecticians were a core disipline in that time (i
Parker 04/04/2022
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
Adam 04/29/2021
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.
Tyler 06/13/2020
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
Alan 08/11/2011
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

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