system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What kind of fallacy is this logic/argument (if it is one at all) ''I haven't experienced it/seen it, therefore it must not exist'' ?
gpt
This is just a laughably bad argument-- there's no specific name for this sort of thing, aside from a general non sequitur, which isn't terribly helpful. Regardless, it's usually not very productive to try and play "spot the fallacy." Just consider the actual argument: the person is saying that unless they have personally experienced or seen something, then such a thing does not exist. And, this is just bizarre. It would entail all manner of inanities. So, unless they have personally seen your mom, your mom doesn't exist-- what? Without *a whole* lot more to be said, there is just no reason to buy this claim at all-- it goes against so much of how operate in the world. We don't need some Latin phrase to realize this is a crap "argument."