In dictionaries:
argument from design
Design complexity implies intelligent creator.
argument from ignorance
A fallacy where a proposition is assumed to be true because it has not yet been proved false, or vice versa.
argument from illusion
(philosophy) An argument for the existence of sense-data, and thus a criticism of direct realism, according to which what we perceive (such as a stick that looks bent because it is viewed underwater) is distinct from the actual thing perceived (the straight stick).
Argument from incredulity
Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, is a fallacy in informal logic.
argument from silence
An argument based on the absence of something being mentioned in documents as evidence.
Argument from authority
An argument from authority is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure (or figures) is used as evidence to support an argument.
Argument from beauty
The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence of God, that roughly states that the evident beauty in nature, art and music and even in more abstract areas like the elegance of the laws of physics or the elegant laws of mathematics is evidence of a creator deity who has arranged these things to be beautiful (aesthetically pleasing, or "good") and not ugly.
Argument from fallacy
the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
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