In Plato's early dialogues, the elenchus is the technique Socrates uses to investigate, for example, the nature or definition of ethical concepts such as justice or virtue.
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In 1785 he published " Elenchus Animalium ", a " directory of animals " that included the first binomial names for a number of mammals, including the Quagga and the Tarpan.
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Wallis's " Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae ", published in 1655, contained an elaborate criticism of Hobbes's attempt to put the foundations of mathematical science in its place within knowledge.
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He restored its former layout and, helped financially by Chaptal, built an orangery, dug ponds, and enlarged the collections, of which he published a list in 1805-Elenchus plantarum horti botanici Monspeliensis.
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Having spoken with Socrates on the topic of justice it is clear that either Clitophon was not a receiver of Socrates'elenchus or he did not realize that he had been given the answer to how to achieve justice.
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The exact nature of the elenchus is subject to a great deal of debate, in particular concerning whether it is a positive method, leading to knowledge, or a negative method used solely to refute false claims to knowledge.
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Clitophon attempts to employ elenchus when he had questioned Socrates'companions, but the portrayal of his method when relating the conversation to Socrates is too one-sided with concern only for his answers and paraphrasing that of the others.
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In 1634 he published in the Netherlands two anti-Catholic Latin treatises : " Elenchus Religionis Papisticae ", an answer to a Catholic called Richard Short; and " Flagellum Pontificis ", an argument in favour of Presbyterianism.
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Dialectic can be defined as a, " mode of thought, or a philosophic medium, through which contradiction becomes a starting point ( rather than a dead end ) for contemplation " Socrates proposed this form of dialectic through a Socratic method termed elenchus.
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For a long period after the " Elenchus "'publication, the existence of the yellow-throated marten was considered doubtful by many zoologists, until a skin was presented to the Museum of the East India Company in 1824 by Thomas Hardwicke.
