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Ideas for 'Stipulation, Meaning and Apriority', 'Sophistical Refutations' and 'works'

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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

2677	Dialectic aims to start from generally accepted opinions, and lead to a contradiction [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Dialectical arguments are those which, starting from generally accepted opinions, reason to establish a contradiction.
	From: Aristotle (Sophistical Refutations [c.331 BCE], 165b03)

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 3. Eristic

2674	Competitive argument aims at refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism or repetition [Aristotle]
	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.
	From: Aristotle (Sophistical Refutations [c.331 BCE], 165b15)