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In:Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar
[Argumentation in Context 23] 2026
► pp. 81–92

Chapter 5
Aristotle’s On Sophistical Refutations

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Article outline
  • 1.The dialectical procedure
  • 2.Contents of On Sophistical Refutations
  • 3.Aristotle’s theory of fallacies
  • 4.Through asperities to the stars
    • 4.1Fallacies dependent on the use of language
    • 4.2Form of expression
    • 4.3Babbling
    • 4.4Peirastic
    • 4.5Solution
  • Acknowledgement
  • Notes
  • References
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