Sophistical Refutations

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On Sophistical Refutations (or "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 speechMaterial fallacies
• Accident
• Affirming the consequent
• Converse accident
• Irrelevant conclusion
• Begging the question
• False cause
• Fallacy of many questions

References

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/aristotle_fallacies.htm

External links

• translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge

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