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Full Idea
Those who compete and contend in argument aim at five objects: refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism, and the reduction of one's opponent to a state of babbling, that is, making him say the same thing over and over again.
Clarification
A 'solecism' is an error in the use of words
Gist of Idea
Competitive argument aims at refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism or repetition
Source
Aristotle (Sophistical Refutations [c.331 BCE], 165b15)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Sophistical Refutations, On the Cosmos etc (III)', ed/tr. Forster,E.S. /Furley,D.J. [Harvard Loeb 1955], p.17
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