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Option 2 : Appeal to Ignorance
Fallacies are common logical flaws that will weaken your argument's logic.
- Fallacies might be invalid arguments or irrelevant points, and they're easy to spot because they don't have any proof to back up their claims.
- The appeal to ignorance fallacy occurs when a person justifies a specific conclusion by exploiting a lack of information.
- This fallacy incorrectly places the burden of proof on the person making the allegation.
- For example, No one has ever been able to prove the existence of extrasensory perception. We must therefore conclude that extra-sensory perception is a myth.
- In this example, the conclusion is drawn that the existence of extrasensory myth is justified by exploiting a lack of information.
Therefore, "No one has ever been able to prove the existence of extrasensory perception. We must therefore conclude that extra-sensory perception is a myth", the appeal to ignorance fallacy is committed in this sentence.
- Slippery slope: The slippery slope fallacy occurs when if one thing happens or is permitted to happen subsequent steps will follow eventually leading to a final consequence.
- Hasty generalization: A hasty generalisation is a fallacy in which a judgement is reached without sufficient or unbiased evidence to support it.
- Red herring: This fallacy involves attempting to divert the conversation to a topic on which the person conducting the redirecting is more knowledgeable.
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