What is "ignoratio"

Usage examples of "ignoratio".

Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenche.

He has committed an ignoratio elenchi--that is to say, he has understood the words of your proposition, but not the ideas.

Throw the ignoratio elenchi in his teeth, and, at once, you have him annihilated.

So also the criticisms levelled by Freethinkers at the Doctrine of the Trinity have been merely examples of ignoratio elenchi.