appeal to ignorance fallacy
The appeal to ignorance fallacy occurs when someone argues that a statement must be true or false based on the lack of evidence or proof for the opposite claim.
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Related Concepts (17)
- absence of evidence as evidence
- argument from ignorance
- burden of proof
- conspiracy theories
- cryptozoology
- fallacy of division
- god of the gaps
- ignorance as evidence
- paranormal phenomena
- pseudoscience
- red herring fallacy
- skepticism
- supernatural explanations
- ufo sightings
- unexplained phenomena
- unfalsifiability
- unproven claims
Similar Concepts
- appeal to authority fallacy
- appeal to ignorance
- appeal to probability fallacy
- appeal to tradition fallacy
- begging the question fallacy
- causal fallacies
- circular reasoning fallacy
- ecological fallacy
- gambler's fallacy
- informal fallacies
- logic fallacies
- logical fallacy
- mind reading fallacy
- straw man fallacy
- strawman fallacy