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Headword: Aitêsis
Adler number: alphaiota,365
Translated headword: questioning
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In Aristotle 'questioning' is the derivation of the opposite in arguments, the eliciting of something from a respondent and afterwards trying to elicit that which is contrary to it from him, and by this method showing him the contradiction in his responses.[1]
Greek Original:
Aitêsis: para Aristotelei aitêsis esti tou enantiou hê en logois paragôgê, to lambanein ti para tou apokrinomenou kai meta tauta peirasthai to antikeimenon autôi par' autou lambanein kai dia toutou tou tropou deixai tên enantiologian tôn apokriseôn.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.
[1] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 579.10-13.
Keywords: definition; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2003@19:23:59.
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David Whitehead (added note) on 12 February 2003@06:19:11.
David Whitehead (another note) on 17 May 2012@07:03:34.
David Whitehead (coding; another keyword) on 1 December 2015@05:52:59.
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