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Does Mitt Romney really know what a non sequtur is?
The reason I ask is because he call a question posed to him during the last republican debate, a non sequitur.
A non sequitur is a statement not a question.
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It seems he doesnt, but I doubt most of America knows what it means either, so him using the word will impress those who don't know what it means.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
It depends on what the question was. If the question posed a statement in the form of a question, such as: Does this mean that a question CAN be a non sequitur?, then he may have used the term correctly in reference to someone trying to infer a conclusion and get agreement on it by using question form.
We can't just use one definition of a word to indicate lack of understanding of a term. All that does is show our ignorance of multiple meaning words.
