Aristotle - The Organon - index for DE SOPHISTICIS ELENCHIS Section 3 Part 16 - Sophistries must be answered as well as understood

Aristotle - The Organon - index for DE SOPHISTICIS ELENCHIS Section 3 Part 16

Sophistries must be answered as well as understood

Paragraph 1 We have now therefore dealt with the sources of questions, and the methods of questioning in contentious disputations:

Paragraph 2 The use of them, then, is, for philosophy, twofold.

Paragraph 3 Answerers may clearly see how to meet arguments of this kind, if our previous account was right of the sources whence fallacies came, and also our distinctions adequate of the forms of dishonesty in putting questions.

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Paragraph 1	We have now therefore dealt with the sources of questions, and the methods of questioning in contentious disputations:
Paragraph 2	The use of them, then, is, for philosophy, twofold.
Paragraph 3	Answerers may clearly see how to meet arguments of this kind, if our previous account was right of the sources whence fallacies came, and also our distinctions adequate of the forms of dishonesty in putting questions.