Why does he immediately add that for the pluralist to plead the non-mutation of such abstractions would be an ignoratio elenchi? |
His whole paper is an ignoratio elenchi, and he doesn't touch a single one of my positions. |
This is what's known in the trade as ignoratio elenchi, or an irrelevant conclusion. |
Throw the ignoratio elenchi in his teeth, and, at once, you have him annihilated. |
He would not be so humorous about Zeus, nor fall into an ignoratio elenchi. |
The attempts, for instance, to disprove the population doctrines of Malthus, have been mostly cases of ignoratio elenchi. |