logical fallacy that, since proposition has not yet been proven false, it must be true
John Locke (1632–1704), the likely originator of the term
Argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance, is an informal fallacy where something is claimed to be true or false because of a lack of evidence to the contrary.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).