Σοφιστικοὶ Ἔλεγχοι

aka De Sophisticis Elenchis

Sophistical Refutations

Author

Aristotle

Language

Classical Attic Greek

Year

c. 345-335 BCE

Country

Classical Athens

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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Sophistical Refutations is a text in Aristotle's Organon in which he identified twelve or thirteen fallacies. According to Aristotle, this is the first work to treat the subject of deductive reasoning in ancient Greece. In it, he attempts to develop a pattern of sound and genuine reasoning in opposition to the deceptive or misleading "art of sophistry".