In the dialogues of this group, the elenchus is a negative instrument, but in the Gorgias Socrates seems to use it in support of his bedrock principle. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Shorter Ethical Works] Reference
The elenchus comes soon or late, but it always comes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917] Reference
The general rule of elenchus is this: Socrates 'partner. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Shorter Ethical Works] Reference
First off, "law professors" have an extremely loose definition of Socrates' elenchus his method. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
On the elenchus, see especially Vlastos 1983, Kraut 1983, Brickhouse and Smith, 1984, Benson 1987. 3. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Shorter Ethical Works] Reference
Alexandri quod fertur in Aristotelis Sophisticos elenchus commentarium, Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca 2.3. From Wordnik.com. [Byzantine Philosophy] Reference
What the elenchus needs if it is to satisfy rather than frustrate love, in other words, is the theory of Platonic Forms. From Wordnik.com. [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference
The elenchus questions our reasons, typically by revealing an inconsistency in our accounts of why we believe what we do. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
Setting aside the opening elenchus which elicits Thrasymachus 'conception of the real ruler, Socrates offers five arguments against Thrasymachus. From Wordnik.com. [Callicles and Thrasymachus] Reference
However, he never explained what sort of education would make people wise and virtuous; his own method of interrogation – the elenchus – was hardly conducive to wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Irrational] Reference
The desire to ensure irrefutability, perhaps the legacy of reflection on the Socratic elenchus, drives him to the conclusion that one really has recollected the Form only when one has become a metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
Since the Questioner meets Socrates in the privacy of his home, we must imagine that he is Socrates 'alter ego, and that the process referred to is the self-elenchus by which Socrates is driven to his famous disclaimer of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Shorter Ethical Works] Reference
Socrates responds to Agathon's fancy speech about love with an elenchus, so that his emptiness, his lack of knowledge, flows into Agathon, destroying the wisdom of great beauty that had won his tragedy a first prize the day before (175e4-7). From Wordnik.com. [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference
We observe in the dialogues how he moves from the Socratic form of refutation (elenchus) and a Socratic form of definition, especially of ethical ideas or concepts, towards a metaphysical structure in which these ideas can, as it were, be anchored. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
If they are not, they will be incoherent and the lover who employs them will find himself embroiled in a love story he does not understand, a love story whose incoherence the elenchus, or psychoanalysis, or just plain critical scrutiny will reveal. From Wordnik.com. [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference
But of these sophisms and elenchus of merchandise I skill not. From Wordnik.com. [Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing] Reference
It is the leaven working in the Sophists with their subtle rhetoric, in Socrates with his negating elenchus, in Plato with his confounding dialectic. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
He is best known for his method of argument (elenchus), which poses questions that may expose logical errors underlying an opponent's argument, though he usually stated that his purpose was not to argue but to pursue the truth in alliance with his opponent. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
“elenchus” refers to the Socratic method of argument. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle on Non-contradiction] Reference
The elenchus is important to love, then, because it creates a hunger for wisdom ” a hunger which it cannot itself assuage. From Wordnik.com. [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference
Given Thrasymachus 'apparently conflicting slogans, Socrates has no difficulty in generating an initial classic Socratic elenchus ” i.e., a refutation which elicits a contradiction from the interlocutor's own beliefs (339b-340b). From Wordnik.com. [Callicles and Thrasymachus] Reference
The close, searching elenchus by which the man of vague generalities is constrained either to express his meaning to himself in definite terms, or to confess that he does not know what he is talking about; the perpetual testing of all general statements by particular instances; the siege in from which is laid to the meaning of large abstract terms, by fixing upon some still larger class-name which includes that and more, and dividing down to the thing soughtmarking out its limits and definition by a series of accurately drawn distinctions between it and each of the cognate objects which are successively parted off from itall this, as an education for precise thinking, is inestimable, and all this, even at that age, took such hold of me that it became part of my own mind. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter I. Childhood and Early Education] Reference
The close, searching elenchus by which the man of vague generalities is constrained either to express his meaning to himself in definite terms, or to confess that he does not know what he is talking about; the perpetual testing of all general statements by particular instances; the siege in from which is laid to the meaning of large abstract terms, by fixing upon some still larger class-name which includes that and more, and dividing down to the thing sought -- marking out its limits and definition by a series of accurately drawn distinctions between it and each of the cognate objects which are successively parted off from it -- all this, as an education for precise thinking, is inestimable, and all this, even at that age, took such hold of me that it became part of my own mind. From Wordnik.com. [The autobiography of John Stuart Mill] Reference
At the heart of the Socratic elenchus is the. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
“ “ “, 1994a, ˜The Socratic elenchus: method is all™, in Vlastos 1994, 1-66. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
9 An elenchus is defined to be a syllogism of contradiction in the 20th chapter of this book; or a syllogism with contradiction of the conclusion in chap, l, book 1. From Wordnik.com. [Works] Reference
˜elenchus™ (see Vlastos 1992; Kraut 1983). From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
Posted by elenchus. From Wordnik.com. [Report: NAFTA-Gate Leaker Said Hillary's People Were Reassuring Canada, Too] Reference
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