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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (70791)6/5/2008 3:47:03 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 542598
 
>>This one I am not sure I understand
Argumentum ex silentio- out of silence; based on the absence of firm evidence.<<

Rambi -

Perhaps the argument that we knew Saddam Hussein had not gotten rid of his WMDs because he had not provided us with firm proof that he had is an example of that kind of argument.

Then there was the famous Rumsfeld line, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

As we saw, the WMDs were, in fact, absent.

Thanks for posting those. I love Latin. We may not see the argumentum ad baculinum around here, but we sure see the argumentum ad individium coming up in the campaign.

- Allen
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