Negation as failure
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An argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or "appeal to ignorance" (where "ignorance" stands for: "lack of evidence to the contrary"), is an inference that a proposition P is false from the fact that P is not proved to be true or known to be true.
See also
- Argument from silence
- False dilemma
- Negation as failure
- Philosophic burden of proof
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