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Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has ...
Sobre la indolencia de los filipinos ("On the Indolence of the Filipinos" in Spanish) is a socio-political essay published in La solidaridad in Madrid in 1890. It was written by José Rizal as a response to the accusation of Indio or Malay indolence. He admits the existence of indolence among the Filipinos, but it could be attributed to a ...
Argumentum ad baculum ( Latin for "argument to the cudgel " or " appeal to the stick ") is the fallacy committed when one makes an appeal to force[ 1] to bring about the acceptance of a conclusion. [ 2][ 3] One participates in argumentum ad baculum when one emphasizes the negative consequences of holding the contrary position, regardless of the ...
Many of the terms used in the debate are seen as political framing: terms used to validate one's own stance while invalidating the opposition's. [12] For example, the labels "pro-choice" and "pro-life" imply endorsement of widely held values such as liberty or the right to life, while suggesting that the opposition must be "anti-choice" or "anti-life". [13]
Key issues in examining an argument to determine whether it is an ad hominem fallacy or not are whether the accusation against the person stands true or not, and whether the accusation is relevant to the argument. An example is a dialogue at the court, where the attorney cross-examines an eyewitness, bringing to light the fact that the witness ...
Appeal to emotion or argumentum ad passiones (meaning the same in Latin) is an informal fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence. [1] This kind of appeal to emotion is irrelevant to or distracting from the facts of the argument (a so-called ...
Filipino values are, for the most part, centered at maintaining social harmony, motivated primarily by the desire to be accepted within a group. [dubious – discuss] The main sanction against diverging from these values are the concepts of Tagalog: hiya, roughly translated as 'a sense of shame', and ' amor propio ' or 'self-esteem'.
Premise. A premise or premiss [a] is a proposition —a true or false declarative statement—used in an argument to prove the truth of another proposition called the conclusion. [1] Arguments consist of a set of premises and a conclusion. An argument is meaningful for its conclusion only when all of its premises are true.