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fallacies 22
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fallacy 25
false 43
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falsity 5
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43 him
43 just
43 only
Aristotle
On Sophistical Refutations

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1 4 | Those ways of producing the false appearance of an argument 2 5 | which it was asserted. A "false assertion" about anything 3 5 | premisses. If, then, the false cause be reckoned in among 4 5 | the consequent and upon false cause. Those that depend 5 5 | or to make an apparently false statement: for to say that 6 5 | which is good, is to make a false statement. Sometimes, however, 7 7 | original point, and those of false cause, and all that treat 8 8 | dialectic: and this may prove a false conclusion because of the 9 8 | think so as well, so that false proof will occur through 10 8 | on which both proofs of false conclusions and an apparent 11 9 | refutations may be true as well as false: for whenever it is possible 12 9 | the matter of that, the false refutations likewise belong 13 9 | according to every art there is false proof, e.g. according to 14 9 | according to geometry there is false geometrical proof, and according 15 9 | according to medicine there is false medical proof. By "according 16 10| as well before describing false refutation: for a refutation 17 11| the art in question. For false diagrams of geometrical 18 11| art)-any more than is any false diagram that may be offered 19 11| dialectical as the drawer of false diagrams to the geometrician; 20 11| just as the drawer of a false diagram beguiles the geometrician. 21 11| reasoner, because he bases his false diagram on the principles 22 11| like that of the drawer of false diagrams to the geometrician, 23 11| respects as the drawer of a false diagram: for the contentious 24 17| from our thesis, but is false or paradoxical, we must 25 18| solution is an exposure of false reasoning, showing on what 26 18| falsity depends, and whereas "false reasoning" has a double 27 18| meaning-for it is used either if a false conclusion has been proved, 28 18| have a true and others a false conclusion, those that are 29 18| conclusion, those that are false in respect of their conclusion 30 18| the other hand, that are false in respect of the premisses 31 18| the conclusion be true or false, in order that we may effect 32 22| writing that you are seated-a false statement, though it was 33 22| written is at the same time false and true." But this is fallacious, 34 24| for a man to show that a false conclusion has been proved, 35 24| all along an exposition of false reasoning, showing on what 36 24| a true proposition, or a false one, in a false manner, 37 24| proposition, or a false one, in a false manner, to point this out 38 25| same time say what is both false and true: but it appears 39 25| rendered-with "true" or with "false". There is, however, nothing 40 25| to prevent it from being false absolutely, though true 41 25| opinion, even if it be a false opinion, are valid in law: 42 33| the solution depends on a false premiss or on the drawing 43 33| contrary to the general view or false; but sometimes it ought


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