Ignorance fallacy

[Darth Dane]

I can't remember the phrase for this, but who determined that we cannot make an assumption based on ignorance?







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[Pyrrho]

Originally posted by Darth Dane
I can't remember the phrase for this, but who determined that we cannot make an assumption based on ignorance?







DD - Love & Laughter

See:

http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html#ignorantiam

You might want to read the whole page:

http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html

[Darth Dane]

Thank you for your link :)





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[Pyrrho]

You are welcome.

[theophilus]

Originally posted by Darth Dane
I can't remember the phrase for this, but who determined that we cannot make an assumption based on ignorance?

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I think Aristotle got all his friends together and they voted against it - that's how these rules/values come about isn't it. At least that's what I've been told re morality.

I haven't seen what else has been posted here, so this may be redundant (and unnecessarily so at that).

The Argument from Ignorance is just that and, therefore, has no argumentative value.

Rules of logic were "deduced" from the nature of thought and the created order, e.g., a thing cannot be itself and not be itself in the same sense at the same time; nobody "determined" them.