THESAURUS

Elenchus Thesaurus

(rhetoric) A technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.

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Related dictionary entries include elench, epicheirema, epichirema, paromologia, anacoenosis, anthypophora.

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