Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET June 2024 Cancelled (18.06.2024) Shift-I
Which fallacy is committed in the following statement? 'People with cases of flu should be kept in quarantine, because it has never been disproven as the best means of keeping the disease from spreading.'
AAppeal to ignorance ✓ Correct
BHasty generalization
CSlippery slope
DFalse cause
Correct answer: (A) Appeal to ignorance — The statement commits the appeal to ignorance, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The statement commits the appeal to ignorance, so that is the answer.
★An appeal to ignorance argues a claim is true only because it has not been disproven.
★Here quarantine is called best simply because no one has disproven it.
★Absence of disproof is treated as if it were proof.
★This wrongly shifts the burden of proof onto the doubter.
★So this is the appeal to ignorance, not hasty generalization, slippery slope or false cause.
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