Editing Irrelevant conclusion (section)

{{Short description|Type of informal fallacy}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
An '''irrelevant conclusion''',<ref>Bishop Whately, cited by [[John Stuart Mill]]: ''A System of Logic''. London Colchester 1959 (first: 1843), pp. 542.</ref> also known as {{langnf|la|'''ignoratio elenchi'''|ignoring refutation}} or '''missing the point''', is the [[informal fallacy]] of presenting an [[argument]] whose conclusion fails to address the issue in question. It falls into the broad class of [[relevance]] fallacies.<ref name="Hurley2011"/>

The irrelevant conclusion should not be confused with [[formal fallacy]], an argument whose conclusion does not follow from its [[premise]]s; instead, it is that despite its formal [[consistency]] it is not relevant to the subject being talked about.