1. Appealing to Ignorance appealing to ignorance fallacy P - David Agler

1 CRITICAL THINKING – HANDOUT 8 – ARGUMENTUM AD IGNORANTIAM. 1. Appealing to Ignorance . The appealing to ignorance fallacy is any argument that reason from the inability to show that a proposition P is false (or that we are ignorant about P) to the fact that P is true.That is, it is a type of argument that claims that a statement is true because it has not been shown to be false. ................
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