Relating to or characteristic of elenchus; involving refutation through exposing logical contradictions.
From Greek 'elenkhtikos,' an adjective derived from 'elenchus.' This spelling variant is particularly common in academic and philosophical literature.
The different spellings of this word ('elenchic' vs 'elenctic') show how Greek words get adopted into English through different scholars and different time periods—it's linguistic archaeology!
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