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argument from silence: a standalone construct

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Historiography

inferring that something did not happen or was not known because sources expected to mention it do not, with conditions for when the inference holds.

In historiography, argument from silence refers to inferring that something did not happen or was not known because sources expected to mention it do not, with conditions for when the inference holds. This meaning comes from Lange (1966) in History and Theory.[1]

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argument3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs inference3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Lange, J. (1966). The Argument from Silence. History and Theory, 5(3), 288. https://doi.org/10.2307/2504447

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