{"id":78,"date":"2015-12-14T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:15:55","slug":"argumento-a-silentio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/argumento-a-silentio\/","title":{"rendered":"Argument from silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Silence gives consent\u2026 well, it doesn\u2019t!<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/09eng-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-775 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/09eng-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/09eng-1.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argumento_a_silentio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argumentum ex silentio<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or argument from silence is a fallacy <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where a conclusion is based upon silence or lack of evidence. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the field of classical studies, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this term<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often refers to the assertion that an author <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ignorant of a subject, based on the lack of references to it in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his available writings<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Although it can be valid and convincing when used in an educated guess, it is considered as a fallacy when it is used <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as proof coming from a logical reasoning<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><br \/>\nA: Do you know where Mar\u00eda lives?<br \/>\nB: Yes, I do<br \/>\nA: Where does she live?<br \/>\nB: I\u2019m not going to tell you.<br \/>\nA: You don\u2019t know where she lives.<br \/>\nThis conclusion is not necessarily justified; maybe B just doesn\u2019t want to tell, or they consider the answer as confidential information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\nRemark the possible reasons to remain silent, specially those more plausible than the ones adduced by the fallacious person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence gives consent\u2026 well, it doesn\u2019t! https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/09eng-1.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network Wikipedia Argumentum ex silentio or argument from silence is a fallacy where a conclusion is based upon silence or lack of evidence. 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