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- adjective Pertaining to an elench.
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- adjective Pertaining to an
elench .
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Examples
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Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument -- to use a logical term -- that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell Hugh Blair Grigsby 1843
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Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument ” to use a logical term ” that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon Littleton Waller Tazewell Grigsby, Hugh Blair 1860
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