On Arguments from Ignorance
The purpose of this paper is twofold: to give a good account of the argument from ignorance, with a presumptive argumentation scheme, and to raise issues on the work of Walton, the nature of abduction and the concept of epistemic closure. First, I offer a brief disambiguation of how the terms '...
Main Author: | Martin David Hinton |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2018-06-01
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Series: | Informal Logic |
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Online Access: | https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4697 |
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