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"You cannot prove that God does not exist, so He does."
Burden of Proof
Ad Ignorantiam AKA Appeal to Ignorance Category: Fallacies of Relevance (Red Herrings) → Distracting Appeals Burden of Proof is a fallacy in which the burden of proof is placed on the wrong side. Another version occurs when a lack of evidence for side A is taken to be evidence for side B in cases in which the burden of proof actually rests on side B. A common name for this is an Appeal to Ignorance. This sort of reasoning typically has the following form:
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1,581 Total Answer Attempts 75%
1,182 Correctly Popped Fallacies
399 Incorrectly Un/Popped


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Most Common Responses30 - False Dilemma 29 - Appeal to Belief 27 - Relativist Fallacy 27 - Begging the Question 21 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief 18 - Genetic Fallacy 15 - Misleading Vividness 15 - Hasty Generalization 15 - Appeal to Popularity 14 - Biased Generalization 14 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 13 - Fallacy of Composition 12 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque 11 - Appeal to Common Practice 11 - Confusing Cause and Effect 10 - Personal Attack 9 - Ignoring a Common Cause 8 - Fallacy of Division 8 - Appeal to Ridicule 8 - Gambler's Fallacy 8 - Red Herring 7 - Appeal to Tradition 7 - Post Hoc 7 - Slippery Slope 7 - Appeal to Spite 7 - Poisoning the Well 6 - Appeal to Authority 5 - Middle Ground 5 - Ad Hominem 5 - Guilt by Association 5 - Appeal to Flattery 4 - Appeal to Emotion 3 - Appeal to Novelty 2 - Peer Pressure 2 - Special Pleading 2 - Appeal to Pity 2 - Appeal to Fear |
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