Brewer's: Non Sequitur

(A). A conclusion which does not follow from the premises stated.

“The name began with B and ended with G. Perhaps it was Waters.” - Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby, p. 198.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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