(December 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I can't find a single classical Roman scholar who believes in it; prove me wrong, and I'll change my "none" to just "most". It's kind of like WLC being able to find a single living physicist who supports his positions! In any case, "most" is, for all practical purposes, equivalent to "none".
Since you're fond of wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
Quote:Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true. This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that there may have been an insufficient investigation, and therefore there is insufficient information to prove the proposition be either true or false.