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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Appeals to emotion, Genetic fallacies, Straw man, Naturalistic fallacy, Argument from ignorance, Ad hominem, Ignoratio elenchi, Not Invented Here, Genetic fallacy, Special pleading, Argumentum ad populum, Appeal to nature, Evidence of absence, Argument from authority, Reductio ad Hitlerum, Biblical literalism, Wisdom of repugnance, Moralistic fallacy, Children's interests, Double-barreled question, Tu quoque, Ipse-dixitism, Base rate fallacy, Etymological fallacy, Argument from silence, Appeal to tradition, Chronological snobbery, Appeal to fear, Bulverism, Wishful thinking, Appeal to novelty, Association fallacy, Poisoning the well, Argument to moderation, Argumentum ad lapidem, Two wrongs make a right, Ipse dixit, Invincible ignorance fallacy, Appeal to ridicule, Appeal to spite, Accident, Flattery, Proof by assertion, Appeal to motive, Ad nauseam, Argumentum ad crumenam, Argumentum ad lazarum, Appeal to pity, Pro hominem, Ad feminam, Qur'anic literalism, Appeal to flattery, Island mentality, Appeal to accomplishment, Appeal to loyalty, Appeal to psychology. Excerpt: Argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or "appeal to ignorance," is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not been proven false (or vice versa). This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that there is insufficient investigation and therefore insufficient information to satisfactorily prove the proposition to be either true or false. Nor does it allow the admission that the choices may in fact not be two (true or false), but may be as many as four, (1) true, (2) false, (3) unknown between true or false, and (4) being unknowable (among the first three). In debates, appeals to ignorance are sometimes used to shift the burden of proof. Argume...
