sequitur
A logical conclusion or consequence of facts.
Noun
- A logical conclusion or consequence of facts.
- He is accordingly in haste to show that it was not kept on shore; for, if so, ‘some trace would be found on shore of the murderers’. I presume you smile at the sequitur. - 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie...
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin sequitur (“it follows”), the third person form of sequor (“to follow”).