Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence

What is Fallacy of Insufficient Evidence?

• Premise is irrelevant to support the conclusion

• Premise is not enough to support the conclusion

• Premise is confusing many people

• Premise is full of evidences

What is the fallacy of insufficient evidence that attempts to persuade others by appealing to feelings of reverence for some tradition or belief?

• Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

  (Arguing from Ignorance)

• Argumentum ad Verecundiam

  (Appeal to Inappropriate Authority)

• False Dilemma

• Argumentum ad Antiquum

  (Appeal to the Ages)

"This treatment has been used by people since the ancient times, therefore it must be an effective way to cure this disease." Is an example of?

• False Dilemma

• Argumentum ad Antiquum

  (Appeal to the Ages)

• Argumentum ad Verecundiam

  (Appeal to Inappropriate Authority)

• Hasty Generalization (Converse Accident)

This fallacy consist in applying a general rule to a particular case when circumstances suggest that an exception to the rule should apply.

• Accident

• Hasty Generalization (Converse Accident)

• False Dilemma

• Argumentum ad Antiquum

  (Appeal to the Ages)

"My neighbor, who is an engineer told me that vaccines can cause autism, therefore vaccines cause autism." Is an example of?

• Hasty Generalization (Converse Accident)

• Argumentum ad Verecundiam

  (Appeal to Inappropriate Authority)

• Argumentum ad Antiquum

  (Appeal to the Ages)

• Accident

This fallacy arises when the premise of an argument presents us with a choice between two alternatives and assumes that they are exhaustive when in fact they are not.

• Hasty Generalization (Converse Accident)

• Accident

• False Dilemma

• Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

  (Arguing from Ignorance)

The fallacy that the arguer uses to claim that something is true because no one has proven it false or vice versa.

• False Dilemma

• Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

  (Arguing from Ignorance)

• Argumentum ad Antiquum

  (Appeal to the Ages)

• Accident

This fallacy often derives from the failure to distinguish contradictories from contraries.

• Hasty Generalization

• Accident

• False Dilemma

• Argumentum ad Ignorantiam [Arguing from Ignorance]

"I ate in two restaurants in Bangkok and didn’t like the experience. There are no good restaurants in Bangkok." Is an example of?

• Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

  (Arguing from Ignorance)

• False Dilemma

• Hasty Generalization (Converse Accident)

• Argumentum ad Verecundiam

  (Appeal to Inappropriate Authority)

This fallacy consists in drawing a general or universal conclusion from insufficient particular case.

• Argumentum ad Antiquum

  (Appeal to the Ages)

• Argumentum ad Verecundiam

  (Appeal to Inappropriate Authority)

• Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

  (Arguing from Ignorance)

• Hasty Generalization (Converse Accident)