Lexicographical Neighbors of Elenchi
Literary usage of Elenchi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"Suddenly she gripped his arms round him, and elenchi her body stiff. " Never mind,"
he said. " You shall please yourself. " You shall have me," she said, ..."
2. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"Ignoratio elenchi, or Irrelevant Conclusion. Fallacies of the second class named
constitute especially what is commonly called the ignoratio elenchi, ..."
3. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1858)
"This is the fallacy of Ignoratio elenchi, in the widest sense of the phrase';
... It is evident that ignoratio elenchi may be employed as well fot the ..."
4. The Thirty Years' War on Silver: Money Scientifically Treated and Logically by Adolphus Leigh Fitzgerald (1903)
"... denominated ignoratio elenchi [ignorance or mis- elenchi. . . . , ' .
, apprehension of the question]. The question was, Could the legislature legislate ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Logic by William Dexter Wilson (1856)
"SECTION I. Of the Ignoratio elenchi, or Mistaking the Issue. ... The Ignoratio
elenchi, or mistake of the Question, is more pernicious when it occurs in a ..."
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