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ignoration|ɪgnɒˈreɪʃən| [ad. L. ignōrātiōn-em, n. of action f. ignōrāre to ignore.] †1. The fact or condition of being ignorant; mistaking or misunderstanding through want of knowledge. Obs.
1612H. Ainsworth Annot. Ps. vii. heading, The word properly signifieth Aberration, or Ignoration. 2. The action of ignoring or treating as unknown; disregarding; the fact of being ignored.
1865Standard 12 June 6/6 After long years of ignoration, let us coin the word, it is wanted in our language, Cherubini is about to be recognized. 1872Hardwick Tradit. Lanc. 63 The faith in the tradition produced a more tragic result than the most superstitious could have dreaded from its ignoration. 1881Q. Rev. 212 The reply to that is that it is an entire ignoration of human nature. 3. Ignoration of the Elench, a rare anglicized repr. of the more usual Scholastic Latin ignoratio elenchi |ɪgnɒˈreɪʃɪəʊ ɪˈlɛŋkaɪ|, a logical fallacy which consists in apparently refuting an opponent, while actually disproving some statement different from that advanced by him; also extended to any argument which is really irrelevant to its professed purpose.
1588Whitaker Disp. Script. (1849) 287 (Stanf.) This fallacy is that called ignoratio elenchi. 1638Chillingw. Wks. II. 102 (Stanf.) Here was no petitio principii in Dr. Potter, but rather ignoratio elenchi in you. 1843Mill Logic v. vii. §3 The fallacy of Ignoratio Elenchi,..also called by Archbishop Whately the Fallacy of Irrelevant Conclusion. 1866Fowler Deduct. Logic viii. §4 The fallacy of Irrelevancy (or, as it is sometimes called, shifting ground) is technically termed Ignoratio Elenchi, i.e. ignorance of the syllogism required for the refutation of an adversary..this has now received a wider meaning. Whenever an argument is irrelevant to the object which a speaker or writer professes to have in view, it is called an ignoratio elenchi. |