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In order to detect the fallacy, the proposition thus silently assumed must be supplied; but the reasoner, most likely, has never really asked himself what he was assuming; his confuter, unless permitted to extort it from him by the Socratic mode of interrogation, must himself judge what the suppressed premise ought to be in order to support the conclusion.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

THE youthful confuter of Locke was despatched to Merton School, and ranked, according to his merits, as lag of the penultimate form.

Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

THE youthful confuter of Locke was despatched to Merton School, and ranked, according to his merits, as lag of the penultimate form.

Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Oracle doctrine of the fathers, -- there is a still more flagrant argument against the fathers, which it is perfectly confounding to find both them and their confuter overlooking.

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Oracle doctrine of the fathers, -- there is a still more flagrant argument against the fathers, which it is perfectly confounding to find both them and their confuter overlooking.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

This was our question, this we debated, and this Mr.K. might have sent for, and have spoken to, since he will needs be a confuter.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

&c. But instar omnium, the most copious confuter of atheists is Marinus Mercennus in his

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007