Sophistical Refutations

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Sophistical Refutations (Greek: Σοφιστικοὶ Ἔλεγχοι; Latin: De Sophisticis Elenchis) is a text in Aristotle's Organon in which he identified thirteen fallacies.^{[note 1]} According to Aristotle, this is the first work to treat the subject of deductive reasoning. (Soph. Ref., 34, 183b34 ff.). The fallacies Aristotle identifies are the following:

Fallacies in the language (in dictione)

Fallacies not in the language (extra dictionem)

Footnotes

^ Sometimes listed as twelve.

References

Parry, William T.; Hacker, Edward A. (1991), Aristotelian Logic, SUNY Press, p. 435, ISBN 978-0-7914-0690-8

External links

Works related to Sophistical Refutations at Wikisource
HTML Greek text via Greco interattivo^{[permanent dead link]}
Translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge
Sophistical Elenchi public domain audiobook at LibriVox
ChangingMinds.org: "Aristotle's 13 fallacies"

[1] Sometimes listed as twelve.

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