The Sophism of Achilles and the Tortoise is the most triumphant of examples of Ignoratio Elenchi.
This is the fallacy of Ignoratio Elenchi, in the widest sense of the phrase; also called by Archbishop Whately the Fallacy of Irrelevant Conclusion.
The attempts, for instance, to disprove the population doctrines of Malthus, have been mostly cases of ignoratio elenchi.
According to this definition, there is no Ignoratio Elenchi in the Sophist, though there may be in the person who supposes himself refuted.
Sometimes persons neglect some of these conditions, and fancy that they have contradicted the thesis, when they have not: this is Ignoratio Elenchi.
We may remark, by the way, that it is not very consistent in Aristotle to recognize one general head of Sophistical Refutation called Ignoratio Elenchi, after the definition that he has given of the Sophist at the beginning of this treatise.
The Fallacy of surreptitious conclusion (ignoratio elenchi), the mistaking or obscuring of the proposition really at issue, whilst proving something else instead.
Mr. Mill concludes this chapter with another instance of that ignoratio elenchi which has been so abundantly manifested throughout his previous criticisms.
Mr. Mill had better be cautious in talking about ignoratio elenchi.
Hamilton's argument, and makes his own attempted refutation of it a glaring ignoratio elenchi.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ignoratio elenchi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
