The Curious Silence of the Dog and Paul of Tarsus; Revisiting The Argument from Silence
In this essay I propose an interpretative and explanatory structure for the so-called argumentum ex silento, or argument from silence (henceforth referred to as the AFS). To this end, I explore two examples, namely, Sherlock Holmes’s oft-quoted notice of the “curious incident of the dog in the night...
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University of Windsor
2012-03-01
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| Series: | Informal Logic |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3139 |