Talk:Non sequitur (disambiguation)

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Need to split article into the logical and the humorous senses of the word.[edit]

This article does not do justice to the humorous sense of the meaning of non sequitur. We need to split it into two articles, say, "Non sequitur (logic)" and "Non sequitur (absurdist humor)". The two meanings are apples and oranges, really, and share only marginal attributes.

I must admit it was an education to me to read about this term's association with formal logic; it reminded me of a meaning I had long forgotten. However, many links to this page are from articles where the link implies you'll be reading about humor. For example, when Zippy the Pinhead -- one of whose defining characteristics is his use of non sequiturs -- says "Are we having fun yet?", any reader hoping to understand this will gain absolutely nothing from reading about logical fallacies. Zippy is hard enough to understand. Besides, I still have a package of refrigerated cookie dough in my freezer.

I'll split this page into two tonight and do a bit of work cleaning up links and redirects; I hope others with interest in both aspects of this term will appreciate it and give some attention to both articles.

And if there are additional senses of meaning I'm missing (except for the usual use as proper names), please bring them to my attention.

Paul Klenk 21:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Translation[edit]

"non sequitur" is translated as "it does not follow," not "it is not followed," because "sequor" is a deponent verb. This means that it is passive in form, but active in meaning. Mkelley 01:46, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

non sequitur (logic) should be the primary redirect, not humor[edit]

because that is by far the most popular usage of the word. Kevin Baas^talk 19:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]