| The application of this elenchus is the work of the Sophist, looked at on its best side. |
| The desire to ensure irrefutability, perhaps the legacy of reflection on the Socratic elenchus, drives him to the conclusion that one really has recollected the Form only when one has become a metaphysician. |
| Cross-examination, the shock of the elenchus, must be brought to bear upon it. |
| Although Socrates uses this style of conversation for a number of different purposes, it has been called the Socratic method, and in one of its forms is has become known to scholars as the elenchus. |
| Here commence the series of difficulties and contradictions brought out by the elenchus of Parmenides. |
| He is here following Socrates' method of the elenchus, where you propose a definition, but then throw it away if it is shown to be in some way imperfect. |
