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Argument from ignorance — Wikipedia (en)

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Argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance, is an informal fallacy where something is claimed to be true or false because of a lack of evidence to the contrary. The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true. If a proposition has not yet been proven true, one is not entitled to conclude, solely on that basis, that it is false, and if a proposition has not yet been proven false, one is not entitled to conclude, solely on that basis, that it is true. Another way of expressing this is that a proposition is true only if proven true, and a proposition is false only if proven false. If no proof is offered (in either direction), then the proposition can be called unproven, undecided, inconclusive, an open problem or a conjecture.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Argument from ignorance» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
Wikidata Q651669: «fallacia logica» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q651669
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance?action=history).
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