In a message dated 2/19/2002 2:12:58 AM Central Standard Time, edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu writes:It is the purest of non sequiturs. The premises To end a good summary on this issue with this remark is unfortunate as it seems to say that an argument with all false premises is a pure non sequitur. It may be, of course, (and, I think, in this case is), but not because the premises are false. Non-sequitur is any argument whose conclusion does not follow from its premises, regardless of the status of the premises. Indeed, in the weakest sense of "folllows from" (but not in the sense intended here) any conclusion follows from a false premise. |