argument from ignorance

is the teleologists' new method: a reduction not to the impossible but to ignorance.

Recast in definition form from: “have imported a new method of argument in proof of their theory—namely, a reduction, not to the impossible, but to ignorance; thus showing that they have no other method of exhibiting their doctrine.”

ad hominem

appeal to authority

Baruch Spinoza

John Locke

teleology

evidence

ignorance

proof

God of the gaps

begging the question

classical fallacy

distinction without a difference

dogmatic fallacy

fallacy of isolation

fallacy of misplaced concreteness

fallacy of misplaced scale

fallacy of simple location

fallacy of the perfect dictionary

great tool-use fallacy

guilt by association

hot-hand fallacy

intentional fallacy

logical fallacy

ludic fallacy

post hoc

red herring

saltwater fallacy

short-circuit fallacy

subreption

sunk cost fallacy

argument from ignorance, n.Definitions

argument from ignorance