XIV.

This, which is an impudent trick, is played as follows: When your

opponent has answered several of your questions without the answers

turning out favourable to the conclusion at which you are aiming,

advance the desired conclusion,--although it does not in the least

follow,--as though it had been proved, and proclaim it in a tone of

triumph. If your opponent is shy or stupid, and you yourself possess

a great deal of impudence and a good voice, the trick may easily

succeed. It is akin to the fallacy _non causae ut causae_.

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