ignoratio elenchi in English
noun
1
a logical fallacy that consists in apparently refuting an opponent while actually disproving something not asserted.
Deducing statements about the action of agents operating in a closed system, and transferring them to the action of agents in the open system, commits the fallacy called ignoratio elenchi .
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