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Quotation from On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle
“That some reasonings are genuine, while others seem to be so but are not, is evident”
On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, On Sophistical Refutations, Part 1, trans. W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford, 1928)
The opening claim of the treatise on fallacies, which goes on to compare sham arguments with sham health and gilded metal.
Citation: "That some reasonings are genuine, while others seem to be so but are not, is evident" — Aristotle, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, On Sophistical Refutations, Part 1, trans. W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford, 1928). (id aristotle-organon-logic-q4)
