Transcript Appeal to Ignorance1st

Kenzie Garrett
Amber Jewell
Definition: A proposition is true on the basis that it
has not been proved false. Or that it is false on the
basis that it has not been proven true.
In other words… Someone either believes in
something because it hasn’t been proven false. Or
they don’t believe in it because it hasn’t been
proven true.
Since people cannot prove ghosts are real,
they do not exist.
Or…
Since people cannot prove that ghosts aren’t
real, then they exist.
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Type: Appeal to Ignorance
Characters: Proctor
Quote: “Is it the Devil’s fault that a man cannot
say you good morning without you clap him for
defamation?”
Act One, Page 181
Argument Explanation: Proctor is suggesting that
the reason for everything that has been going on
is the Devil’s fault because there is no other
reasoning.
Type: Appeal to Ignorance
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Characters: Proctor
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Quote: “There might also be a dragon with five
legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.”
Act 3, Page 217
4. Argument Explanation: In this quote Proctor is
making a statement that even though no one has
ever “seen” a dragon in his house doesn’t mean it
isn’t there. He is referring to his wife’s poppet's
that just because they found one doesn’t mean
she has more.
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Type: Appeal to Ignorance
Characters: Giles
Quote: “Now he goes to the court and claims that
from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive
for more than four weeks because my Martha
bewitch them with her books!”
Act 2, Page 201
Argument Explanation: Giles is angry because his
wife is being accused of “bewitching” someone’s
pigs. Since no one has proved that she didn’t
bewitch them they cannot say she is innocent.
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Attack on Homeschooling.” Fallacy 3: Proof by Lack of
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“Ignorant Ignorance” A Logical Fallacy. YouTube,16 Oct. 2011. 16
Feb. 2012