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Alphabetical [« »] prefix 1 prejudice 1 premiss 12 premisses 22 prepared 1 presence 1 present 6 | Frequency [« »] 22 fallacies 22 how 22 nor 22 premisses 22 proved 22 reasoning 22 used | Aristotle On Sophistical Refutations IntraText - Concordances premisses |
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1 2 | are those that reason from premisses generally accepted, to the 2 2 | are those that reason from premisses which are accepted by the 3 2 | reason to a conclusion from premisses that appear to be generally 4 5 | bound to demolish one of the premisses. If, then, the false cause 5 5 | Sometimes, however, additional premisses may actually give rise to 6 6 | ought to result from the premisses laid down, so as to compel 7 6 | does not happen where the premisses are not causes of it: and 8 6 | does not happen where the premisses are not causes of it: and 9 11| for the investigation of premisses comprises the whole of this 10 15| question be taken as one of the premisses of one’s argument, either 11 17| all costs overthrow the premisses that lie near the conclusion, 12 17| the larger the number of premisses, the harder it is to draw 13 18| by demolishing one of the premisses asked, and by showing that 14 18| false in respect of the premisses can be solved only by a 15 19| contain the ambiguity in their premisses, one should reply in like 16 22| even if all the sophist’s premisses be granted, still no proof 17 33| is most incisive if from premisses that are as generally accepted 18 33| character: for always from premisses that are generally accepted 19 33| the one that argues from premisses, all of which are equally 20 33| clearly which it is of the premisses asked, whose demolition, 21 33| conclusion or on one of the premisses that the deception depends.~ 22 34| most generally accepted premisses that there are. For that