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Aristotle
On Sophistical Refutations

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1 2 | Examination-arguments, and Contentious arguments. Didactic arguments 2 2 | defined in another treatise: contentious arguments are those that 3 11| this is a sophist. Now for contentious and sophistical reasoning: ( 4 11| geometrical figures are not contentious (for the resulting fallacies 5 11| about these things is a contentious argument, and any reasoning 6 11| genuine reasoning, is a contentious argument: for it is merely 7 11| fighting, so the art of contentious reasoning is foul fighting 8 11| so in the latter case do contentious reasoners. Those, then, 9 11| generally considered to be contentious and quarrelsome persons, 10 11| will be sophistical and contentious, but not in the same respect; 11 11| respect; rather, it will be contentious in so far as its aim is 12 11| without the reality. The contentious argument stands in somewhat 13 11| whereas the latter is not a contentious reasoner, because he bases 14 11| dialectic will yet clearly be contentious as regards other subjects. 15 11| means of the lunules is not contentious, Bryson’s solution is contentious: 16 11| contentious, Bryson’s solution is contentious: and the former argument 17 11| then, the relation of the contentious argument to the dialectical 18 11| diagrams to the geometrician, a contentious argument upon the aforesaid 19 11| demonstrate. This is why the contentious reasoner does not stand 20 11| a false diagram: for the contentious reasoner will not be given 21 14| then, are the types of contentious arguments, and the subdivisions 22 15| useful also for purposes of contentious argument: for the object 23 16| methods of questioning in contentious disputations: next we have 24 17| general rule in fighting contentious persons, to treat them not 25 17| incidentally the object of contentious arguers, though less so 26 17| than the true solutions in contentious reasonings and in the encounter 27 33| demolish, and the other in contentious arguments, respecting the 28 33| demolish is uncertain. Of contentious arguments, on the other 29 34| by the paid professors of contentious arguments was like the treatment


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