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Philosophical concept

Elenchus

Socratic elenchus tests a claim through questions until contradiction, imprecision, or ignorance becomes visible.

Works
161
Passages
1,676
Thinkers
31
Traditions
11

Understand uses of the concept

Socratic elenchus tests a claim through questions until contradiction, imprecision, or ignorance becomes visible.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,676 passages across 161 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: elenchus, réfutation, refutation, cross-examine, examiner, ἐλεγχ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  13. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  14. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  15. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  17. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  19. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  20. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  21. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  23. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  24. Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages
  25. Pseudo-Diogenic EpistlesPseudo-Diogenes · 0 passages
  26. Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  27. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  28. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  29. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  30. Doubtful and Spurious Fragments Attributed to EpictetusEpictetus · 1 passages