Did Aristotle Write on Fallacies?

Abstract

Aristotle wrote on paralogisms, not on fallacies. Recently, John Woods argued for a “misalignment” between some concepts of fallacies and various lists of fallacies supposed to share a core based on Aristotle’s list. We stress multiples continuities and discontinuities between Aristotle’s paralogisms and modern concepts of fallacy and show that his concept of paralogism already did not match his list. Yet, he also paid attention to irregular arguments not listed in On sophistical refutations.