Originally posted by ms_erupt
*sigh* I'm NOT calling him or her ignorant. Argumentum ad Ignorantiam is a commonly used arguing [b]fallacy. To say that something is true simply on the basis that it hasn't been proven false or that it is false simply because it hasn't been proven true. [/B]
I realize you weren't calling him ignorant per se... Though I assumed it meant arguing about something of which one has little prior knowledge. My apologies.