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Definition of Elenctical

Elenctical
Elenctic E*lenc"tic, Elenctical E*lenc"tic*al, a. [Gr.?.] (Logic) Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.

Meaning of Elenctical from wikipedia

- invented the "Socratic" method. Plato famously formalized the Socratic elenctic style in prose—presenting Socrates as the curious questioner of some prominent...
- Elenctics, in Christianity, is a division of practical theology concerned with persuading people of other faiths (or no faith) of the truth of the Gospel...
- protagonist. As a teacher, competitor intellectuals resented Socrates's elenctic examination method for intellectual inquiry, because its questions threatened...
- Socrates uses the elenctic method to investigate the nature or definition of ethical concepts such as justice or virtue. Elenctic re****ation depends...
- definition of a concept, e.g., virtue or courage. Socrates then, through elenctic testing, shows his interlocutor that his answer is unsatisfactory. After...
- and a person actually believing. Francis Turretin in his Institutes of Elenctic Theology speaks of some who teach instead that justification was actually...
- of church history, though the English translation of his Institutes of Elenctic Theology is increasingly read by students of theology. John Gerstner called...
- renaissance of the scholastic method. Francis Turretin's Institutes of Elenctic Theology (1696) and Petrus van Mastricht's Theoretical-Practical Theology...
- Francis (1679–1685). Institutio Theologiae Elencticae [Institutes of Elenctic Theology]. Retrieved 3 Mar 2023. XIV. Although certain ordinations of the...
- Cult literature Diaries and journals Didactic Dialectic Rabbinic Aporetic Elenctic Erotic literature Essay, treatise History Genealogy Narrative People's...