Aristotle · SE

Sophistical Refutations

Aristotle on fallacies and sophistical argument — the closing work of the Organon, in thirty-four chapters.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1958)) side by side with English translations (W. A. Pickard-Cambridge, O. F. Owen) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 34 chapters.

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• Pickard-Cambridge Greek & English · W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford, 1928)
• Owen Greek & English · O. F. Owen (Bohn, 1853)

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotelis topica et sophistici elenchi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.
Translations: W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford, 1928); O. F. Owen (Bohn, 1853).
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In print

Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →

Prefer a paper copy? These in-print editions carry the translation read here (or a revision of it):

• In printW. A. Pickard-Cambridge’s translation, revised, found in Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, 2 vols. (Princeton University Press, 1984) Find in print →

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