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To: papertyger
This is a non sequiter <=sp?

Non sequitur only applies to arguments, not claims. What murphE gave you was a claim. So, calling it a "non sequitur" is a category mistake.

-A8

35 posted on 11/17/2006 10:27:50 AM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8
Non sequitur only applies to arguments, not claims.

Are syllogisms not known as "arguments?"

41 posted on 11/17/2006 10:40:59 AM PST by papertyger
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