{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg040.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg040.local001","title":"De sophisticis elenchis","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1837","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. 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ΠΕΡΙ δὲ τῶν σοφιστικῶν ἐλέγχων καὶ τῶν φαινομένων μὲν ἐλέγχων ὄντων δὲ παραλογισμῶν ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ ἐλέγχων λέγωμεν, ἀρξάμενοι κατὰ φύσιν ἀπὸ τῶν πρώτων. Ὅτι μὲν οὖν οἱ μὲν εἰσὶ συλλογισμοί, οἱ δ᾿ οὐκ ὄντες δοκοῦσι, φανερόν. Ὥσπερ γὰρ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων τοῦτο γίνεται διά τινος ὁμοιότητος, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν λόγων ὡσαύτως ἔχει. Καὶ γὰρ τὴν ἕξιν οἱ μὲν ἔχουσιν εὖ, οἱ δὲ φαίνονται, φυλετικῶς φυσήσαντες καὶ ἐπισκευάσαντες αὑτούς, καὶ καλοὶ οἱ μὲν διὰ κάλλος, οἱ δὲ φαίνονται, κομμώσαντες αὑτούς. Ἐπί τε τῶν ἀψύχων ὡσαύτως· καὶ γὰρ τούτων τὰ μὲν ἄργυρος τὰ δὲ χρυσός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς, τὰ δ᾿ ἔστι μὲν οὔ, φαίνεται δὲ κατὰ τὴν αἴσθησιν, οἷον τὰ μὲν λιθαργύρινα καὶ τὰ καττιτέρινα ἀργυρᾶ, τὰ δὲ χολοβάφινα χρυσᾶ. Τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον καὶ συλλογισμὸς καὶ ἔλεγχος ὁ μὲν ἔστιν, ὁ δ᾿ οὐκ ἔστι μέν, φαίνεται δὲ διὰ τὴν ἀπειρίαν· οἱ γὰρ ἄπειροι ὥσπερ ἂν ἀπέχοντες πόρρωθεν θεωροῦσιν. Ὁ μὲν γὰρ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-30"},{"label":"Chapter 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-31"},{"label":"Chapter 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-32"},{"label":"Chapter 33","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/#tlg0086-tlg040-local001-33"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg040.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg040/local001.json.gz"}}