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Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has ...
Traditionally, a great number of informal fallacies have been identified, including the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy of amphiboly, the fallacies of composition and division, the false dilemma, the fallacy of begging the question, the ad hominem fallacy and the appeal to ignorance. There is no general agreement as to how the various ...
Invincible ignorance (argument by pigheadedness) – where a person simply refuses to believe the argument, ignoring any evidence given. [63] Argument from ignorance (appeal to ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam) – assuming that a claim is true because it has not been or cannot be proven false, or vice versa. [64]
It has the appeal to celebrity/authority: “We can uphold the legacy of Herman B Wells.” ... It combines vagueness with appeals to ignorance: “Demographic changes, resulting financial ...
An example is a probabilistically valid instance of the formally invalid argument form of denying the antecedent or affirming the ... (appeal to ignorance) In humor ...
Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, [1] is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition must be false because it contradicts one's personal expectations or beliefs, or is difficult to imagine.
Most people have heard the expression, ignorantia juris non excusat, although perhaps not in Latin.Broadly translated it means, “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” But there’s another ...
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