Logical Fallacy of the Day!

Argument from silence (argumentum e silentio) – where the conclusion is based on the absence of evidence, rather than the existence of evidence.^[19][20] An argument from silence (in Latin argumentum ex silentio) is a conclusion based on the absence of statements in historical documents, rather than their presence.^[2][3] In the field of classical studies, it often refers to the induction from the lack of references to a subject in the available writings of an author to the conclusion that they were ignorant of it.^[3]  Thus in historical analysis with an argument from silence, the absence of a reference to an event or a document is used to cast doubt on the event not mentioned.^[4] While most historical approaches rely on what an author's works contain, an argument from silence relies on what the book or document does not contain.^[4]

This approach thus uses what an author "should have said" rather than what is available in the author's extant writings.  An argument from silence may apply to a document only if the author was expected to have the information, was intending to give a complete account of the situation, and the item was important enough and interesting enough to deserve to be mentioned at the time.^[6][7]

Arguments from silence, based on a writer's failure to mention an event, are distinct from arguments from ignorance which rely on a total "absence of evidence" and are widely considered unreliable; however arguments from silence themselves are also generally viewed as rather weak in many cases; or considered as fallacies.….

Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies

·         Formal Fallacies -A formal fallacy is an error in logic that can be seen in the argument's form.^[1]All formal fallacies are specific types of non sequiturs.

·         Informal Fallacies are Informal fallacies – arguments that are fallacious for reasons other than structural (formal) flaws and usually require examination of the argument's content.^[12]

My List

Anecdotal fallacy
Appeal to probability
Appeal to Stone (Argumentum ad lapidem)
Argument from ignorance
Argument from repetition
Base rate fallacy
Conjunction fallacy
 Unwarranted assumption fallacy