Argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance, is an informal fallacy where something is claimed to be true or false...

mentioned at the time. Arguments from silence, based on a writer's failure to mention an event, are distinct from arguments from ignorance which rely on a total...

it is also a special case of ad lapidem. Argument from ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantiam) Argumentation theory Genetic fallacy Logical extreme Logical...

is any reasonable doubt for existence or non-existence. Argument from ignorance Argument from silence Contraposition Probatio diabolica Proof by exhaustion...

indicates design" claim, and thus see it as an argument from ignorance and as a God-of-the-gaps argument. Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch of the National...

Conjuring Universe. According to the Warrens, Donna, a 28-year-old student nurse from Hartford, Connecticut, was given the doll in 1970. The nurse reported the...

key assumptions are included as additional premises of the argument. Argument from ignorance can be stated in a very informal way as, "if it were true...

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existed since the 1980s, most sources indicate that the legend originated from 1996 postings written by Texas reporter Brian Bethel on a "ghost-related...

predictions could be made from it. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292–1350), in his Miftah Dar al-SaCadah, also used physical arguments in astronomy to question...

points raised by intelligent design proponents are arguments from ignorance. In the argument from ignorance, a lack of evidence for one view is erroneously...

작품' 알고도 포스터 회수" [The government tells the 'Finger pinching' argument 'it's a British work from 2 years ago', still removes the poster]. The Hankyoreh (in...

1948 disappearance of an Airborne Transport DC-3 charter flight en route from Puerto Rico to Miami; and the January 1949 disappearance of Star Ariel, another...

Empath (/ˈɛmpæθ/; from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθ(εια) (empáth(eia)) 'passion') is a term for people who have a higher than usual level of empathy. In parapsychology...

"IlluminatiPirate", claiming to be building on previous posts from the same board and from Wizardchan, and marking the term's spread beyond these initial...

teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal') also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument, is...

been proven false must therefore be true, and vice versa (See: Argument from ignorance). Over-reliance on testimonial, anecdotal evidence, or personal...

Arnold's hypotheses as based on selective evidence and argument from ignorance. In his 1976 book Fire from Heaven, UK writer Michael Harrison suggests that...

would threaten national security. Judge Pro rejected the government's argument. In response President Bill Clinton issued a presidential determination...

ignorance (argument by pigheadedness) – where a person simply refuses to believe the argument, ignoring any evidence given. Argument from ignorance (appeal...

Theodore's fees while he was there. On the way, he managed to have an argument with a Frenchman on the subject of a lady with whom they were sharing a...

Fallacies such as argument from ignorance, special pleading, and the post hoc fallacy violate this criterion because they are arguments that are missing...

blow away people with such force would have also blown away the tent. An argument, possibly related to a romantic encounter that left some of them only partially...

chemtrail websites found that believers appeal to science in some of their arguments but do not believe what academic or government-employed scientists say;...

claim they either come from the Draco constellation or the Orion constellation or are allies with nefarious extraterrestrials from the Orion constellation...

(or alternatively, 11 September),[better source needed] McCartney had an argument with his bandmates during a Sgt. Pepper recording session and drove off...

from Spanish: chupa, 'sucks', and cabras, 'goats') is a legendary creature, or cryptid, in the folklore of parts of the Americas. The name comes from...

The invincible ignorance fallacy, also known as argument by pigheadedness, is a deductive fallacy of circularity where the person in question simply refuses...

displays many claimed haunted objects and artifacts from around the world. Many of the artifacts from their most famous investigations were featured. As...

purposes and to keep society in ignorance. UFO and alien-related conspiracy theories emerged in far-right politics from the 1980s onwards. According to...