latin name for red herring logical fallacy

A attempts to support their position with an argument that politics ought not to be criticized on social media because the message is not directly being heard by the head of state this would make them guilty of ignoratio elenchi, as people such as B may be criticizing politics because they have a strong message for their peers, or because they wish to bring attention to political matters, rather than ever intending that their views would be directly read by the president.

A: Well, I do not keep up with it anyway. People can agree on making a petition or convey notice from many others that they will be signing one based on their concerns.

Example 1: A and B are debating as to whether criticizing indirectly has any merit in general.Ī: There is no point in people ranting on social media about politics the president is not going to read it anyway.The irrelevant conclusion should not be confused with formal fallacy, an argument whose conclusion does not follow from its premises. It falls into the broad class of relevance fallacies. An irrelevant conclusion, also known as ignoratio elenchi (Latin for ''ignoring refutation'') or missing the point, is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may or may not be logically valid and sound, but (whose conclusion) fails to address the issue in question.

Latin name for red herring logical fallacy