Appeal to Ignorance
An appeal to ignorance (also known as an "argument from ignorance") argues that a proposition must be true because it has not been proven false or there is no evidence against it.
The argument can be used to bolster multiple contradictory conclusions at once, such as the following two claims:
"No one has ever been able to prove that extraterrestrials exist, so they must not be real."
"No one has ever been able to prove that extraterrestrials do not exist, so they must be real."
An appeal to ignorance doesn't prove anything. Instead, it shifts the need for proof away from the person making a claim.
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