(December 28, 2017 at 12:11 pm)alpha male Wrote:(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.
You could make the exact same claim about the existence of fairies. They must exist, otherwise, why are (or at least were) large numbers of peoples who believed in their existence?
