elenchusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛŋ.kəs/

名詞

elenchus (複数形 elenchi)

1. (rhetoric) A technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.
   • 1991, Thomas c. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, “Socrates’ Elenctic Mission”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume IX (1991),^[1] Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 131–132:

     The elenchus begins when an interlocutor makes some moral claim that Socrates wishes to examine. The argument then proceeds from premisses that express certain of the interlocutor’s other beliefs to a conclusion that contradicts the original moral claim under scrutiny.

同意語

• Socratic method

関連する語

• elenctic

Further reading

• “elenchus”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “elenchus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek ἔλεγχος (élenkhos, “refutation, scrutiny”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʰ- (“to accuse, to scold”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈlen.kʰus/, [ɛˈɫ̪ɛŋkʰʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈlen.kus/, [eˈlɛŋkus]

名詞

elenchus m (genitive elenchī); second declension

1. costly trinket (especially an earring)
2. refutation
3. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) list
   • Elenchus tamen Sanctorum necnon Beatorum in Martyrologio ― The list however of Saints and Blesseds in the Martyrology