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Aristotle
On Sophistical Refutations

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1 1 | the faculty to render an answer, and the other upon the 2 5 | undetected and a single answer is returned as if to a single 3 5 | more than one, and that an answer is not to be given, e.g. " 4 5 | their defeat by failing to answer the question, or are exposed 5 6 | answerer has returned an answer as though to a single question, 6 10| not?’-as follows, "Is the answer "No" in one sense, but " 7 10| If, then, any one were to answer that it was not possible 8 11| to claim a "Yes" or "No" answer is the business not of a 9 12| such that in both forms the answer is paradoxical; e.g. "Ought 10 15| desirous of the opposite answer, or at any rate as though 11 15| when it is obscure what answer one wants to secure, people 12 15| that the answerer shall answer what he thinks about it, 13 17| person questioned should answer either "Yes" or "No": whereas 14 17| to add something to his answer in correction of the faultiness 15 17| simply to be given a single answer to two questions, it is 16 17| proper to give a simple answer to any ambiguous question, 17 17| propositions: for though the simple answer be true, that does not make 18 17| possible for it to be true to answer even countless different 19 17| but still one should not answer them with a single answer: 20 17| answer them with a single answer: for that is the death of 21 17| should not give a single answer to two questions, it is 22 17| simply a remark, not an answer at all, although among disputants 23 17| with ambiguity. The proper answer in saying what one thinks 24 17| literally one is bound to answer either simply or by drawing 25 17| our statements, e.g. in answer to questions that are not 26 22| and, on being given the answer "No", were to ask if a man 27 24| conclusion has been drawn, say in answer to them all alike, that 28 30| which there is a single answer, so that one must not affirm 29 30| neither, so that a simple answer does one, as it happens, 30 30| the man who gives a simple answer encounters no obstacle even 31 30| will, if you give a single answer about both, be compelled 32 34| ask questions and not to answer them; for he used to confess 33 34| the form of question and answer, each side supposing that


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