Argument from ignorance
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title:
Argument from ignorance
text:
Argument from ignorance, also known as appeal to ignorance, 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 not yet been proven true. If a proposition has not yet been proven true, one is not entitled to conclude, solely on that basis, that it is false, and if a proposition has not yet been proven false, one is not entitled to conclude, solely on that basis, that
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encyclopedia
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Informal fallacy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
date created:
2001-12-15T01:39:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T05:38:34Z
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