It is chiefly in the heat of argument that either Petitio orIgnoratio succeeds.
All attempts to expose it without using the term Ignoratio Elenchi or something equivalent to it, succeed only in bewildering the student.
Perhaps it might be said that in arguing, "All men are mortal, and you are a man," it is not so much ignoratio elenchi as petitio principii that you commit.
If, indeed, an opponent challenges the truth of the conclusion, and you adduce premisses necessarily containing it as a refutation, that is an ignoratio elenchi unless your opponent admits those premisses.
The Sophism of Achilles and the Tortoise is the most triumphant of examples of Ignoratio Elenchi.
Hamilton's argument, and makes his own attempted refutation of it a glaring ignoratio elenchi.
Mr. Mill had better be cautious in talking aboutignoratio elenchi.
Mr. Mill concludes this chapter with another instance of that ignoratio elenchi which has been so abundantly manifested throughout his previous criticisms.
He has committed an ignoratio elenchi--that is to say, he has understood the words of your proposition, but not the idea.
Throw the ignoratio elenchi in his teeth, and, at once, you have him annihilated.
Certe ignoratio futurorum malorum utilius est= 30 =quam scientia=--It is more advantageous not to know than to know the evils that are coming upon us.
Ignoratio elenchi=--Ignoring of the point at 20 issue.
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.
The Fallacy of surreptitious conclusion (ignoratio elenchi), the mistaking or obscuring of the proposition really at issue, whilst proving something else instead.
This is the fallacy ofIgnoratio Elenchi, in the widest sense of the phrase; also called by Archbishop Whately the Fallacy of Irrelevant Conclusion.
Aristotle has thus distinguished and classified Fallacies under thirteen distinct heads in all--six In Dictione, and seven Extra Dictionem; among which last one isIgnoratio Elenchi.
According to this definition, there is no Ignoratio Elenchi in the Sophist, though there may be in the person who supposes himself refuted.
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.
In like manner, the Fallacy Ignoratio Elenchi will be solved by analysing the two supposed counter-propositions of the Antiphasis, and by showing that there is no real contradiction or inconsistency between them.
Sometimes persons neglect some of these conditions, and fancy that they have contradicted the thesis, when they have not: this is Ignoratio Elenchi.
He now proceeds to show that, in another way of looking at the matter, all the Fallacies ranged under the thirteen heads, may be shown to be reducible to this single one--Ignoratio Elenchi.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ignoratio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
