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Whose game is it anyway? Palworld and the new frontier of intellectual property in eSports. [PDF]

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A Bayesian approach to the argument from ignorance.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 2004
In this paper, we re-examine a classic informal reasoning fallacy, the so-called argumentam ad ignorantiam. We argue that the structure of some versions of this argument parallels examples of inductive reasoning that are widely viewed as unproblematic. Viewed probabilistically, these versions of the argument from ignorance constitute a legitimate form ...
Mike Oaksford, Ulrike Hahn
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The Argument from Ignorance

2022
Abstract This chapter presents a case in which a preventable tragedy occurs and raises the question of who, if anyone, is to blame for it. Many of those who contributed to the tragedy were ignorant of the fact that they were doing so, and it is clear that some of these people therefore have an excuse for their behavior.
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Argument from Ignorance

2015
This chapter contends that the argument from ignorance has an important role to play in a theory of public health reasoning. Typically, this argument involves a single premise to the effect that there is no evidence / proof / knowledge that x is true. From this premise is drawn the conclusion that x is false.
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Profiles of Dialogue for Evaluating Arguments from Ignorance

Argumentation, 1999
This 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, 2013
AbstractThe 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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