Arguments from Ignorance

by Douglas N. Walton

Book Overview

Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidence, or default reasoning) functions as a respectable form of reasoning and those in which it is indeed fallacious. Douglas Walton draws on everyday conversations on all kinds of practical matters in which the argumentum ad ignorantiam is used quite appropriately to infer conclusions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027101475X
• ISBN13: 9780271014753
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"