The Argument from Silence.

Lange, J. (1966). The Argument from Silence. History and Theory, 5(3), 288-301.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1966

Link

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2504192

Cited from

philosophy

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Primes

• Absence Of Evidence Vs Evidence Of Absence
  • In historiography, the argument from silence treats a source's silence as evidence against an event only when the source would have been expected to record it.

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