Wikipedia says:
Non sequitur is Latin for "it does not follow." It is most often used as a noun to describe illogical statements. Non sequitur may refer to:
Non sequitur (literary device), an irrelevant, often humorous comment to a preceding topic or statement.
Non sequitur (logic), a logical fallacy where a stated conclusion is not supported by its premise.
This whole forum is a multiplicity of non sequiturs. It's something we're good at. 🙂
Originally posted by KewpieNoooooo. it's a form of logical fallicy in that, you move an argument to fit some facts. the name comes from an example in which someone shoots a load of holes in a wall and then moves the target next to the bullet holes.
Why do you want to kill sharps? They never did anything to you. 😕
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
Wikipedia quote: if we pay attention to a cluster of cancer cases in a certain sub-population and then draw our "circle" around the smallest area that includes this cluster, this sample will appear to be suffering an unusually high rate of cancer, but if we included the rest of the population, the incidence would regress to the average.
Sounds like what somebody used in the Debates forum to argue that glaciers are growing - he used a shonky website which only looked at the 2% of glaciers currently growing and excluded the 98% which were shrinking. So in his world 100% of glaciers are growing ....
Originally posted by KewpieTake it to the debates spanky!
Wikipedia quote: if we pay attention to a cluster of cancer cases in a certain sub-population and then draw our "circle" around the smallest area that includes this cluster, this sample will appear to be suffering an unusually high rate of cancer, but if we included the rest of the population, the incidence would regress to the average.
Sounds like what s ...[text shortened]... and excluded the 98% which were shrinking. So in his world 100% of glaciers are growing ....
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