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Profiles of Dialogue for Evaluating Arguments from Ignorance
Argumentation, 1999This investigation uses the technique of the profile of dialogue as a tool for the evaluation of arguments from ignorance (also called lack-of-evidence arguments, negative evidence, ad ignorantiam arguments and ex silentio arguments). Such arguments have traditionally been classified as fallacies by the logic textbooks, but recent research has shown ...
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THE ARGUMENT FROM IGNORANCE AND ITS CRITICS IN MEDIEVAL ARABIC THOUGHT
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 2013AbstractThe earliest debate on the argument from ignorance emerged in Islamic rational theology around the fourth/tenth century, approximately seven centuries before John Locke identified it as a distinct type of argument. The most influential defences of the epistemological principle that ‘that for which there is no evidence must be negated’ are ...
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European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2015
The argument from ignorance mounted by John Schellenberg argues from the existence of non-faulty unbelief to the non-existence of God, from the fact of atheism or agnosticism to the truth of atheism. It relies on two putative conceptual relations: between the idea of love and that of personal relationship, and between personal relationship and ...
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The argument from ignorance mounted by John Schellenberg argues from the existence of non-faulty unbelief to the non-existence of God, from the fact of atheism or agnosticism to the truth of atheism. It relies on two putative conceptual relations: between the idea of love and that of personal relationship, and between personal relationship and ...
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Nuclear Wastes and the Argument from Ignorance
1980Senator Howard H. Baker, a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, said in 1973 that “the containment and storage of radioactive wastes is the greatest single responsibility ever consciously undertaken by man”.1 Despite the gravity of this responsibility, however, there is no National Radioactive Waste Policy,2 even though the US has been ...
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Terrorism and the Argument from Ignorance
2014Argument from ignorance (because we do not know X is false, therefore it is true) is typically thought to be a fallacious form of argument. Yet it is precisely this argument that is used to argue that pre-emptive action should be taken against unknown but risky threats. Such an argument is a staple of discourse about terrorism, which typically involves
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