Elenchs vs Elenchus - What's the difference?
elenchs | elenchus |
(rhetoric) A technique of argument associated with wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.
* 1991 , Thomas c. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, “Socrates’ Elenctic Mission”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy , Volume IX (1991), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-823990-1, page 131–132:
As nouns the difference between elenchs and elenchus
is that elenchs is while elenchus is (rhetoric) a technique of argument associated with wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.elenchus
English
Noun
(-)- The elenchus begins when an interlocutor makes some moral claim that Socrates wishes to examine. The argument then proceeds from premisses that express certain of the interlocutor’s other beliefs to a conclusion that contradicts the original moral claim under scrutiny.