I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall. . . “And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer. ” “Twice,” added the voice under the table.
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved. . . In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. . . . You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.