Sophistical Refutations (Latin: De sophisticis elenchis) is a text in Aristotle's Organon.
Aristotle identified thirteen fallacies, as follows:
- Verbal fallacies
- Accent or emphasis
- Amphibology
- Equivocation
- Composition
- Division
- Figure of speech
- Material fallacies
- Accident
- Affirming the consequent
- Converse accident
- Irrelevant conclusion
- Begging the question
- False cause
- Fallacy of many questions
References
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/aristotle_fallacies.htm
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