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    To make an argument from silence (Latin: argumentum ex silentio) is to express a conclusion that is based on the absence of statements in historical documents...
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  • sometimes confused with proof by assertion. Argument from silence (argumentum ex silentio) – assuming that a claim is true based on the absence of textual...
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    2020-10-27. Karesh & Hurvitz 2005, p. 103-104. Joseph Dan (1987). Argumentum e Silentio. W. de Gruyter. pp. 359–362. ISBN 978-0-89925-314-5. Retrieved 11...
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    restoration of the churches." Cook uses Ennodius's brevity as an argumentum ex silentio to prove that Odoacer was very supportive of the Church. "Ennodius...
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  • Coke [full citation needed] Law, Jonathan; Martin, Elizabeth A. (2009). "Ex proprio motu". A Dictionary of Law. Oxford University Press. Entry for "expressly"...
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    give the debater the upper hand. An argument from silence (Latin: argumentum ex silentio) is an argument based on the assumption that someone's silence on...
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    Shakespeare's authorship is a form of fallacious logic known as argumentum ex silentio, or argument from silence, since it takes the absence of evidence...
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  • Coke [full citation needed] Law, Jonathan; Martin, Elizabeth A. (2009). "Ex proprio motu". A Dictionary of Law. Oxford University Press. Entry for "expressly"...
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    Comma did not exist as part of the epistle's text in his time. This argumentum ex silentio has been contested by other scholars, including Fickermann and Metzger...
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  • is no indication that medieval chroniclers were aware of it. An argumentum ex silentio regarding this relationship has been a factor leading critics of...
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  • people), ad temperantiam (to moderation), ad verecundiam (to reverence), ex silentio (from silence), in terrorem (into terror), and e contrario (from/to the...
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