Arguments from Ignorance¶
Walton, D. (1995). Arguments from Ignorance. Pennsylvania State University Press.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Mechanisms¶
- Audit Trail Review
- A gap in a trail is ambiguous — it can mean nothing happened, or that something was deleted, or that logging was simply off — and a reviewer who treats "no entry" as "no event" commits the argument from silence.
This sourceTreats an inference from missing evidence as defeasible: absence supports a conclusion only when the missing record would ordinarily be expected to exist.
- A gap in a trail is ambiguous — it can mean nothing happened, or that something was deleted, or that logging was simply off — and a reviewer who treats "no entry" as "no event" commits the argument from silence.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
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