Argument from incredulity
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Argument from incredulity
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Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, 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. Arguments from incredulity can take the form: I cannot imagine how F could be true; therefore F must be false.
I cannot imagine how F could be false; therefore F must be true. Arguments from incredulity can so
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Informal logical fallacy
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2024-03-27T20:30:22Z
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