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	Non sequitur (logic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Non sequitur is Latin for "it does not follow." In formal logic, an argument is a non sequitur if the conclusion does not follow from the premise.
		It should be stressed that in a non sequitur, the conclusion can be either true or false, but the argument is a fallacy because the conclusion does not follow from the premise.
		It is a non sequitur (note that it is the exact same argument form as in example 1 - the form is always a non sequitur).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic) (382 words)

	non sequitur - Wiktionary
		(logic) An invalid argument; one in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
		The argument "All ravens are fl; this object is fl; therefore, this object is a raven" is a non sequitur.
		Having a costumed superhero abduct the vicar was an utter non sequitur.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Non_sequitur (86 words)

	Non sequitur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Non sequitur (absurdism), a comment which is humorously absurd or has no relation to the comment it follows
		Non Sequitur (ensemble), the musical ensemble at The Walden School
		Non Sequitur (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Non_sequitur (107 words)

	Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
		Logic is a useful tool in this process, but it is not the only tool -- after all, "plausibility" is a fairly subjective matter that does not follow strict logical rules.
		And there are some types of argument that are listed as logical fallacies in logic textbooks, but that are perfectly acceptable in the context of the rules of debate.
		The best time to point out a non sequitur is when your opposition is trying to construct a chain of causation (A leads to B leads to C, etc.) without justifying each step in the chain.
	www.csun.edu /~dgw61315/fallacies.html (5262 words)

	Halfbakery: Total Non Sequitur
		Though the tone of the annotations is tending listwards and it looks like they could slide, at a moments provocation, into as tiresome a cavalcade of repetitous mock oddness as can be seen over at Use Bizarre Metaphors, the idea is not a game to be played in the annotations.
		Unless, of course, the bakery gestalt is making, through these non sequiturs, some such point about the overall readability of Total Non Sequitur.
		If this is the case, I should take this moment to point out to the gestalt that it has, until now, been drawing its non sequiturs from the more non sequiturial end of the continuum and perhaps has overlooked the use of the word partial in the idea text.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Total_20Non_20Sequitur (1329 words)

	Fallacies in Logic
		Non sequitur is Latin for “it does not follow” and is used when the conclusion drawn does not make sense based on the evidence presented.
		Here are some examples of an either-or argument: The U.S. can either have a strong military or a strong welfare program; A woman can either work or be a mother; Graduates can either continue their education or get a full-time job.
		This is an abbreviated form of post hoc, ergo propter hoc, a Latin phrase that means “after this, therefore because of this.” In simple terms, post hoc is a fallacy of faulty cause.
	faculty.fullerton.edu /cibrahim/fallacies.html (1189 words)

	Logic Loop Twenty Three
		This is the fallacy of non sequitur, the Latin words for "does not follow." A non sequitur describes a catch-all fallacy where the conclusion just does not follow from the given premises.
		The term "non sequitur" is most often used when a statement openly contradicts itself and makes no sense.
		If no other title can be ascribed to an argument’s logical irregularities, but the conclusion plainly does not follow from the premises, we can call those irregularities a non sequitur just for lack of any other title.
	www.christianlogic.com /loop/logic_loop_23.htm (1049 words)

	Logic Loop Fifty Seven
		If she knows this advanced form of logic, she should be able to translate all her new ideas into something you can understand.
		Logic is a required class in the classical christian school my daughter attends.
		It is more important that students learn to enjoy logic and thinking skills and that they understand what they are learning.
	www.christianlogic.com /loop/logic_loop_57.htm (723 words)

	The Mahablog » Non Sequiturs
		Non sequitur is Latin for “it does not follow.” In English, non sequitur can refer to a response that has no relevance to what preceded it, or to a conclusion that does not follow from the premises.
		Yes, it is a logical fallacy, and non sequitor is what that particular type of logical fallacy is called.
		Non sequitors are those devices used by those who want to remain mindless [thanks, Swami] because these folks are so ’stimulated’ by doing harm to others.
	www.mahablog.com /2006/08/14/non-sequiturs (3746 words)

	Materials for Writing Tutors: Addressing Specific Problems: Logic
		We've been talking about various ways of helping writers to structure their arguments so that they are clear, persuasive, and logical.
		What we haven't yet discussed are ways that you might use instruction in logic in the tutoring session to help a writer analyze her ideas.
		You'll want to take the opportunity to explain to the writer that an argument can be logical without being true (as in the second example).
	www.dartmouth.edu /~writing/materials/tutor/problems/logic.shtml (856 words)

	ESGS Logical Fallacies
		'logic' of general semantics, applying non-allness, non-identity and self-reflexivity.
		Most fallacies can be avoided with some knowledge of science and epistemology that the practice of general semantics helps to convey.
		Hughes, G.H., and Cresswell, M.J. An Introduction to Modal Logic.
	esgs.free.fr /uk/logic.htm (1906 words)

	The NonSequitur
		Then I get this email telling me that when I apply the epithet “idiots” to those with whom I disagree, I am guilty of using the logical phallacy, oops, Freudian slip, I mean using the logical fallacy of “Ad Hominem”.
		Sadly, there is much the logic professor could comment on.
		Now just because something is logically possible doesn’t mean that it should be assigned a probablity score.
	thenonsequitur.com (3758 words)

	Logical Fallacies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		non sequitur -- logic does not follow from one statement to another
		I know your plane reservations were cancelled, but if there hadn't been terrorist attacks last year, this wouldn't have happened.
		Logos: an appeal to logic; logical reasons for supporting your assertion backed up by solid
	faculty.smu.edu /jdbradle/logical_fallacies.htm (499 words)

	non sequitur - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Non sequitur : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Non sequitur : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=non+sequitur&ls=a (270 words)

	Erroneous methods of inference yielding convincing falsehoods
		Syllogisms generally take as their "major argument" universal statements of the general form "all A are B," and draw inferences about members of the class "A," as demonstrated by the classical example of a syllogism: "All men are mortal.
		Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." Arguments by logical implication take as their major arguments statements in the form "if A then B" and from them form arguments in the form "If A then B. A, therefore B." For purposes of the present discussion, logical implication and syllogism behave similarly.
		An appeal to consequences argues that a proposition must be true because otherwise a consequence will follow which is unacceptable for reasons outside the logic of the argument.
	www.angelfire.com /ks2/fallacies/fallinf.htm (3240 words)

	Deinonychus antirrhopus: terrible claw
		Here is another example from Too Much Logic (actually I'd say not enough logic, but that's just me).
		In fact, the more accurate portrayal is that those who are logical, rational, and understand some things about economics and statistics are the exception at DU not the rule.
		Perhaps some really severe penalties for filing false reports, but then the argument goes that this would have a chilling effect on children who really are suffering abuse while in the DJJ system.
	deinonychus.blogspot.com /2002_12_01_deinonychus_archive.html (15164 words)

	The NonSequitur » Blog Archive » Don’t say “vouch”
		The court’s ruling was a crashing non sequitur: that the public duty to provide something (quality education) entails a prohibition against providing it in a particular way (utilizing successful private educational institutions).
		The court’s ruling was neither constitutional law nor out of character, and it illustrates why the composition of courts has become such a contentious political issue.
		Like the straw man in the previous sentence; Will has hopelessly distorted the argument of the Florida Supreme Court.
	thenonsequitur.com /?p=161 (563 words)

	-yourDictionary.com - Word of the Day
		Definition: Literally, not following (logically), illogical, not connected to anything previously said or (as a noun) a statement not following logically from what was previously said.
		Suggested Usage: This is a pretty harsh criticism of someone's logical powers, so it should be applied directly only in extreme circumstances and indirectly only with cause.
		"What she is saying sounds fine but if you think for a minute, you see that it is non sequitur." Or, as a noun: "If his non sequiturs weren't so funny, he would be a detriment to the negotiations."
	www.yourdictionary.com /wotd/wotd.pl?word=non+sequitur (228 words)

	Christian Logic Loop
		This is an Email loop devoted to explaining logical fallacies found in the news and everyday life.
		Mystery of the Stolen Manoot Part II Logic Loop 49, February, 2, 2004
		Who is avoiding the Q? Logic Loop 41, November 26, 2002
	www.christianlogic.com /loop (155 words)

	-= NONE SO BLIND =-
		This is why I think you are making a major non sequitur in your above essay, and looking for a culprit where there is none.
		I do not know whether it points to a non sequitur in the question I am posing.
		In the liberal, questioning world of critical examination we have become experts at making “much ado about nothing.” I recognize, of course, that stellar and meaningful research still occurs, but my conjecture is that such research has a much more limited presence than it did in during the conservative era of U.S. history.
	www.nonesoblind.org /blog/?p=71 (8940 words)

	The Anonymous Liberal: George Will to the Rescue
		It's amazing how quickly well-established understandings and simple logic are thrown out the window when partisanship enters the equation.
		In the days to come, George Will--despite his well-established conservative credentials--will undoubtedly be labeled a heretic and a liberal by the followers of the Cult of Bush.
		I consider myself a liberal in the classic sense, i.e., someone who tries hard to approach issues with an open mind and to rely on empirical evidence and logical analysis (not rigid ideology) to guide my thinking.
	www.anonymousliberal.com /2006/02/george-will-to-rescue.html (3095 words)

	Logical Fallacy
		implicitly, two assertions that are logically incompatible with each other.
		(In Latin: non causa pro causa, “not the cause of that”).
		Introductory Logic Elementary Logic Practical skepticism Bruce Thompson's Fallacy Page Critical Thinking On The Web
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/cis120/logicalfallacies.html (1744 words)

	non sequitur
		Now here is one that totally defies logic and exemplifies the level of anal retentiveness (AR) endemic to the University of Oklahoma Campus.
		Another non sequitur would be when our old buddy, Marshall Camp, stated that the money saved by not printing ballots for candidates running unopposed in UOSA General Elections could be used to help publicize the elections or save money for students.
		Let's see...The promotion of an election should, theoretically, take place before the election takes place to, well, make people aware of vacancies and to motavate them to register to run for said vacancies.
	www.ou.edu /student/motion/uncommon/issue8/non.shtml (1358 words)

	Philosophical Dictionary: Nicole-Nussbaum
		For a discussion of his life and works, see Nietzsche.
		Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu
		Latin phrase meaning "Nothing is in the understanding that was not earlier in the senses." Hence, the central doctrine of the empiricism of Gassendi, Locke, and Mill.
	www.philosophypages.com /dy/n9.htm (802 words)

	weblog_view — Non Sequitur
		I remember learning about the Scope's Monkey Trial in elementary school.
		I may have been slightly biased at the time, since I grew up in a low-church (Christian Missionary) household that clearly put science and logic first without anyone seeming to have difficulty reconciling gravity and god.
		The Scope's trial was categorized in my 10 year old brain next to monarchy, slavery, and a flat Earth - something that people used to have to think about, but so foreign to what 'everyone' understood now that it was nothing more than a historical curiosity (I was 10, that's what I thought about history).
	bskahan.etria.com (1011 words)

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		Bad logic runs amok everywhere with little notice!
		Use the drop-down menus to select the type of logic error that is most obvious in each sentence.
		Hitler used chemicals, similar to RoundUp for genocide.
	www.swcp.com /~lundman/qz/_qz.php?qz=logic&url=tests/drills.htm (229 words)

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