What is serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic called?
elenctic — Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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