A yet innominate mode of inference has become so frequent in certain quarters that the time has come to fashion a suitable name for it. The scheme of thought in question goes a bit like this:
If A, then B.
Not B.
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But A simply has to be ❢❢❢
I know some scholars will insist that it ought to be called “modus dolendo dolens” or something like that, but let’s not be pedantic.
Will modus dolens still be valid if A and B were not necessarily related?
Oh, there is nothing valid about this particular sillygism. It was meant as a joke, satirizing a manner of thinking that refuses to accept a logical conclusion. My pidgin Latin phrase “Modus Dolens” was intended to suggest “Way of Pain” or “Way of Sorrow”.