Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence")...

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...

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...

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...

criticized for its association with logical fallacies, specifically the argument from ignorance fallacy. This fallacy asserts that just because something is not...

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

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

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

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