Non sequitur

Non sequitur

Everybody should read this article, at least to have a notion.

This definitely needs to be taught at schools/college.

It is amazing the amount of arguments one could avoid if only people knew some basics about formal logic.

 

An excerpt:

 

“Non sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow"), in formal logic, is an argument in which its conclusion does not follow from its premises.[1] In a non sequitur, the conclusion can be either true or false, but the argument is fallacious because there is a disconnection between the premise and the conclusion. All formal fallacies are special cases of non sequitur. The term has special applicability in law, having a formal legal definition. Many types of known non sequitur argument forms have been classified into many different types of logical fallacies”