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> "Discussions on anti-Americanism have in most cases lacked a precise
> definition of what the sentiment entails, which has led to the term
> being used broadly and in an impressionistic manner, resulting in an
> incoherent nature in the many expressions described as anti-American."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_americanism
Noun
ignorance (plural ignorances)
1.. The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lacking knowledge or
information.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignorance
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Argument from ignorance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam
("appeal to ignorance" [1]) or argument by lack of imagination, is a logical
fallacy in which it is claimed that a premise is true only because it has
not been proven false or is only false because it has not been proven true.
The argument from personal incredulity, also known as argument from personal
belief or argument from personal conviction, refers to an assertion that
because one personallyfinds a premise unlikely or unbelievable, the premise
can be assumed not to be true, or alternatively that another preferred but
unproven premise is true instead.
Both arguments commonly share this structure: a person regards the lack of
evidence for one view as constituting proof that another view is true. The
types of fallacies discussed in this article should not be confused with the
reductio ad absurdum method of argument, in which a valid logical
contradiction of the form "A and not A" is used to disprove a premise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
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