English Explanatory Dictionary

argumentum ad ignorantiam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fallacious argument asserting that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false, or vice versa.

Word forms

argumentum ad ignorantiam

Etymology

From Latin [Term?].

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