Sophistical Refutations

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Sophistical Refutations (Latin: De sophisticis elenchis) is a text in Aristotle's Organon.

Aristotle identified thirteen fallacies, as follows:

Verbal fallacies

• Accent or emphasis
• Amphibology
• Equivocation
• Composition
• Division
• Figure of speech

Material fallacies

• Accident
• Affirming the consequent
• Converse accident
• Irrelevant conclusion
• Begging the question
• False cause
• Fallacy of many questions

References

• ChangingMinds.org: "Aristotle's 13 fallacies"

External links

• HTML Greek text via Greco interattivo
• translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge