elenchus
noun
a logical refutation; an argument that refutes another argument by proving the contrary of its conclusion.
elenchi
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pluralof elenchus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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An ignoratio elenchi more flagrant—a mistaking of the question more palpable—it is surely not possible to conceive.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
The ignoratio elenchi is in his own mind.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
The learned term the rhetorical device an ignoratio elenchi.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
Define and illustrate:—Paralogism, ignoratio elenchi, fallacia accidentis, argumentum ad verecundiam, illicit process, undistributed middle, etc.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
The whole of Mr. Mansel’s argument for the inconceivability of the Infinite and of the Absolute is one long ignoratio elenchi.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
