Meaning & use
Sequitur
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A conclusion or statement that logically follows from what has come before it.
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Her closing claim was a genuine sequitur, following naturally from the evidence she had laid out.
Reviewers noted that the essay's conclusion was, unusually, an actual sequitur rather than a leap in logic.
A note on using this word
Latin for 'it follows.' The word is used far more often in its negative form, non sequitur, describing a statement that does NOT logically follow.
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