Editing Irrelevant conclusion (section)

==Etymology==
The phrase ''ignoratio elenchi'' is {{ety|la||an ignoring of a refutation}}. Here ''elenchi'' is the [[genitive]] singular of the Latin noun ''[[wikt:elenchus#Latin|elenchus]]'', which is {{ety|grc|''ἔλεγχος'' (elenchos)|an argument of disproof or refutation}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Greek-English Lexicon |author=[[Henry Liddell|Liddell]]–[[Robert Scott (philologist)|Scott]]–[[Henry Stuart Jones|Jones]] |url=http://archimedes.fas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/dict?name=lsj&lang=el&word=e%29%2flegxos&filter=CUTF8}}</ref> The translation in English of the Latin expression has varied somewhat. [[Charles Leonard Hamblin|Hamblin]] proposed "misconception of refutation" or "ignorance of refutation" as a literal translation,<ref name="Fallacies"/> John Arthur Oesterle preferred "ignoring the issue", and<ref name="Fallacies"/> [[Irving Copi]], [[Christopher Tindale]] and others used "irrelevant conclusion".<ref name="Fallacies">{{cite book|title=Fallacies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eW0FPQAACAAJ&pg=PA31|publisher=[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen & Co. Ltd.]]|page=31|author=[[Charles Leonard Hamblin]]|year=1970}}</ref><ref name="Tindale2007">{{cite book|author=Christopher W. Tindale|title=Fallacies and Argument Appraisal|url=https://archive.org/details/fallaciesargumen00tind|url-access=limited|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-84208-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/fallaciesargumen00tind/page/n53 34]}}</ref>