That's So Ignorant

An argument does not have to be about some burning national issue to be interesting. Take the case of comic book publisher Bluewater Productions. Over the weekend, WBZ radio in Boston interviewed a spokesman for the company about its “Female Force” series.

“Female Force” is a line of comic books about famous women like Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, and Hillary Clinton. When told that Bill Clinton ordered several copies of the issue covering his wife, the interviewer asked whether the former President enjoyed the book. The Bluewater spokesman replied that he must have must because the company did not receive any letters of complaint from him.

This is a textbook illustration of the argument from ignorance. This fallacy consists of assuming a proposition must be true because there is no evidence that it is false. The Logic Critic gives Bluewater Productions…

2 Blades - Wrong.