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Argument from Ignorance and Argument from Silence
Дискурс, 2021 Introduction. This article focuses on the specifics of the arguments from ignorance and arguments from silence. The relevance of the work is due to the growing interest of the scientific community in modeling of defeasible (presumptive) reasoning and ...
E. N. Lisanyuk, A. A. Khamidov
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Reasoning Under Uncertainty: The Role of Two Informal Fallacies in an Emerging Scientific Inquiry [PDF]
Informal Logic, 2002 lt is now commonplace in fallacy inquiry for many of the traditional informal fallacies to be viewed as reasonable or nonfallacious modes of argument.
Louise Cummings
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Was heißt Fortschritt im Wissen? Gnoseotopische Überlegungen zur Aufklärung und ihren Folgen [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2018 This article focuses on the question of what “progress in knowledge” (Fortschritt im Wissen) since the Enlightenment could mean. The answer is rooted in a shift in perspective in our understanding of the Enlightenment, and in an awareness of the ...
Adler, H.
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Informal Logic, 2018 The purpose of this paper is twofold: to give a good account of the argument from ignorance, with a presumptive argumentation scheme, and to raise issues on the work of Walton, the nature of abduction and the concept of epistemic closure.
Martin David Hinton
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ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN NOTIONS OF J.RAWLS‘ "A THEORY OF JUSTICE"
Problemos, 1999 The article presents and overviews the main concepts of "A Theory of Justice" by J. Rawls such as justice, subject of justice, ideas of cooperation and well ordered society, veil of ignorance, rationality of the original situation, principles of justice,
Goda Izabelė Izabelė Venslauskaitė
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"Inculpable Ignorance" in war: Collateral damage and supreme emergency [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2022 In this paper, author aims to determine the existence of the possibility of the inculpable ignorance argument even for acts of combatants in war, in specific contexts of collateral damage and supreme emergency.
Stanar Dragan
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On Arguments from Ignorance in Policy-Making [PDF]
, 2022 Abstract“Schools should remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic, because there is no evidence indicating that children can get the virus.” Many European policy-makers have employed such arguments from ignorance to argue for a course of action in a situation in which science lacked vital information.
Andone, C., Lomelí Hernández , J.A.
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Fallacies in English Religious Argumentative Discourse
مجلة الآداب, 2022 Fallacies are common errors in an argument and they undermine the logic of that argument. They obstruct the process of argumentation since they do not contribute to the resolution in difference in opinion. The current study investigates fallacies
Khawla Shukur Mahmood, Sundus Muhsin Ali
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Informal Fallacies as Cognitive Heuristics in Public Health Reasoning
Informal Logic, 2014 The public must make assessments of a range of health-related issues. However, these assessments require scientific know-ledge which is often lacking or ineffectively utilized by the public.
Louise Cummings
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Modern Islamic Philosophy and our Knowledge of the External World [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019 Since Descartes and the presentation of Skeptical arguments, our knowledge of the external world is one of the concerns of Western epistemic philosophers.
Seyed Ali Taheri Khurramabadi
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