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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
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External links
- HTML Greek text via Greco interattivo
- translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge
Categories:- Works by Aristotle
- Logic literature
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