{"id":91,"date":"2015-12-14T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:20:24","slug":"argumento-ad-ignorantiam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/argumento-ad-ignorantiam\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I cannot prove you are wrong, but that doesn\u2019t prove you are right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/13eng-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-344\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-919 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/13eng-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\/13eng-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><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argumento_ad_ignorantiam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> wikipedia<\/a><br>In logic, an appeal to ignorantiam, also known as call to ignorance, is a fallacy <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which consist of keep the truthness (or falseness) of a proposition, arguing there is not probe against it, or arguing the incapacity of the opponent to show convincing probes of the opposite. They who argue like that, don\u2019t sustain their argument in knowledge, but in ignorance, in the lack of knowledge. It is usually pointed with the sentence: absence of probe is not probe of absence. So you fall in this fallacy when you say something is true because of lack of acknowledge existing about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><br>About God&#8217;s existence:<br>It is not possible to prove God&#8217;s inexistence.<br>Therefore, God exists.<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks has failed to demonstrate our conspiratory theory on the true masterminding of the 11-S, 11-M and 7-J terrorist attacks. Therefore Wikileaks is part of a disinformation campaign orchestrated by the USA government; It\u2019s a controlled declassification of documents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br>Put the emphasis on the fact that even though something may not be known, if you make an affirmation about that something, that something has to be demonstrated. And also that being the case that we may not know something doesn\u2019t imply or give way to made up allegations.<\/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\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot prove you are wrong, but that doesn\u2019t prove you are right. https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/13eng-1.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network Source, wikipediaIn logic, an appeal to ignorantiam, also known as call to ignorance, is a fallacy which consist of keep the truthness (or falseness) of a proposition, arguing there is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}