Aristotle - The Organon - index for TOPICA Book 2 Part 5 - Drawing an opponent into a refutable statement

Aristotle - The Organon - index for TOPICA Book 2 Part 5

Drawing an opponent into a refutable statement

Paragraph 1 Moreover, there is the sophistic turn of argument, whereby we draw our opponent into the kind of statement against which we shall be well supplied with lines of argument.

Paragraph 2 Moreover, any one who has made any statement whatever has in a certain sense made several statements, inasmuch as each statement has a number of necessary consequences:

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Paragraph 1	Moreover, there is the sophistic turn of argument, whereby we draw our opponent into the kind of statement against which we shall be well supplied with lines of argument.
Paragraph 2	Moreover, any one who has made any statement whatever has in a certain sense made several statements, inasmuch as each statement has a number of necessary consequences: