“Or more specifically perhaps, Hugh, I was talking of nothing at all … Since supposing we settled anything—ah, ignoratio elenchi, Hugh, that’s what. Or the fallacy of supposing a point proved or disproved by argument which proves or disproves something not at issue. Like these wars. For it seems to me that almost everywhere in the world these days there has long since ceased to be anything fundamental to man at issue at all … Ah, you people with ideas! “Ah, ignoratio elenchi! … All this, for instance, about going to fight for Spain … and poor little defenceless China! Can’t you see there’s a
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