| Setting aside the opening elenchus which elicits Thrasymachus' conception of the real ruler, Socrates offers five arguments against Thrasymachus. |
| On the other hand, Socrates's employment of the dialectical method, the so-called elenchus, aimed at considerably more than negative knowledge. |
| 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. |
| Cross-examination, the shock of the elenchus, must be brought to bear upon it. |
| The application of this elenchus is the work of the Sophist, looked at on its best side. |
