Ignotum-per-ignotius Definition

noun
An attempt to explain something obscure in terms of something else which is even more obscure.
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(logic) A type of fallacious argument in which one attempts to prove something unknown by relying upon an assumption that is also unknown.

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Origin of Ignotum-per-ignotius

  • Latin for the unknown by the more unknown.

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