XX.

When you have elicited all your premisses, and your opponent has

admitted them, you must refrain from asking him for the conclusion,

but draw it at once for yourself; nay, even though one or other of the

premisses should be lacking, you may take it as though it too had been

admitted, and draw the conclusion. This trick is an application of the

fallacy _non causae ut causae_.

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