NONFALLACIOUS ARGUMENTS FROM IGNORANCE
Douglas Walton · 2016
A HE argument from ignorance has tradi? tionally been classified as a fallacy, but there is growing recognition that this kind of argu? ment can be nonfallacious in some cases. This raises a question: what kind of success? ful or good argument is it, in these cases? In this paper two argumentation schemes to represent the form of the argumentum ad ig norantiam are introduced. It is argued that they are best judged as fallacious or not in a particular case, in relation to a context of use in dialogue.