Ignoratio elenchi
Ignoratio elenchi (from Latin ignoratio , “ignorance” or “ignorance” as well as the Latinized genitive of the ancient Greek noun ἔλεγχος élengchos “refutation”; literally “the ignorance of refutation”) denotesan argumentation error in philosophy . This proves a different assertion than the one in question; the argument misses the point. In an ignoratio , valid evidence for an assertion is provided and the fact that it is different from the one originally to be proven is omitted (“Fallacy of Irrelevant Conclusion”).
The expression was coined by Aristotle in his Organon and is u. a. dealt with in the Sophistic Refutations , the last volume of the Organon . Aristotle takes the term wider: Any argument that lacks linguistic or formal correctness and is still passed off as valid is referred to there as ignoratio elenchi , insofar as it disregards or suppresses the reasons that refute its validity.
A Red Herring is an ignoratio elenchi in which the main focus is on the intention to distract the opponent or the audience from the actual question by means of a lack of objectivity.
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- ↑ Erich Pertsch: Langenscheidts Large School Dictionary Latin-German . Langenscheidt, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-468-07201-5 .
- ^ Wilhelm Gemoll : Greek-German school and hand dictionary . G. Freytag Verlag / Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Munich / Vienna 1965.
- ^ After Whately, quoted by John Stuart Mill : A System of Logic . London Colchester 1959 (first: 1843), p. 542 ff.
- ↑ cf. E. Börger: Errtum (final error) , in: Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , p. 13202 (= HWPh Vol. 4, p. 610)