To: PatrickHenry
Yearrrgh. You have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, grasshopper. Back up and reconsider your last post, specifically "This conclusion is unwarranted by his premise."
If the premises do not establish the conclusion - which is another way of saying that the conclusion does not follow from the premises - then what is the relationship between premises and conclusion?
33 posted on
01/13/2004 10:20:25 AM PST by
general_re
("Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson)
To: general_re
If the premises do not establish the conclusion - which is another way of saying that the conclusion does not follow from the premises - then what is the relationship between premises and conclusion? There is no relationship. The conclusion is irrelevant. More precisly, the conclusion is a non sequitur. In your essays, it is a fallacy of relevance, or in the terminology of the series, an ignoratio elenchi.
Sheesh, what a grouch!
34 posted on
01/13/2004 10:27:34 AM PST by
PatrickHenry
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