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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S20

Section 1,062 of 1,114

Canonical reference B4.C17.S20

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II. Secondly, Another way that men ordinarily use to drive others, and force them to submit their judgments, and receive the opinion in debate, is to require the adversary to admit what they allege as a proof, or to assign a better. And this I call ARGUMENTUM AD IGNORANTIAM.

French

Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition

Un ſecond moyen dont les hommes ſe ſervent pour porter & forcer, pour ainſi dire, les autres à ſoûmettre leur Jugement aux déciſions qu’ils ont prononcées eux-mêmes ſur l’opinion dont on diſpute, c’eſt d’exiger de leur Adverſaire qu’il admette la preuve qu’ils mettent en avant, ou qu’il en aſſigne une meilleure. C’eſt ce que j’appelle un Argument ad Ignorantiam.

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