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div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Vincible_ignorance" class="mw-redirect" title="Vincible ignorance">Vincible ignorance</a>.</div> <p>The <b>invincible ignorance fallacy</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also known as <b>argument by pigheadedness</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Deductive_fallacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Deductive fallacy">deductive fallacy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Circular_reasoning" title="Circular reasoning">circularity</a> where the person in question simply refuses to believe the argument, ignoring any evidence given. It is not so much a fallacious tactic in argument as it is a refusal to <a href="/wiki/Argument" title="Argument">argue</a> in the proper sense of the word. The method used in this fallacy is either to make assertions with no consideration of objections or to simply dismiss objections by calling them excuses, conjecture, anecdotal, etc. or saying that they are proof of nothing, all without actually demonstrating how the objections fit these terms. It is similar to the <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_lapidem" class="mw-redirect" title="Argumentum ad lapidem"><i>ad lapidem</i> fallacy</a>, in which the person rejects all the evidence and logic presented, without providing any evidence or logic that could lead to a different conclusion. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invincible_ignorance_fallacy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term <i><a href="/wiki/Invincible_ignorance_(Catholic_theology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Invincible ignorance (Catholic theology)">invincible ignorance</a></i> has its roots in <a href="/wiki/Catholic_theology" title="Catholic theology">Catholic theology</a>, as the opposite of the term <a href="/wiki/Vincible_ignorance" class="mw-redirect" title="Vincible ignorance">vincible ignorance</a>; it is used to refer to the state of persons (such as pagans and infants) who are ignorant of the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> message because they have not yet had an opportunity to hear it. The first Pope to use the term officially seems to have been <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX" title="Pope Pius IX">Pope Pius IX</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Papal_allocution" title="Papal allocution">allocution</a> <i>Singulari Quadam</i> (9 December 1854) and the <a href="/wiki/Encyclical" title="Encyclical">encyclicals</a> <i>Singulari Quidem</i> (17 March 1856) and <i>Quanto Conficiamur Moerore</i> (10 August 1863). The term, however, is far older than that. <a href="/wiki/Aquinas" class="mw-redirect" title="Aquinas">Aquinas</a>, for instance, uses it in his <i><a href="/wiki/Summa_Theologica" title="Summa Theologica">Summa Theologica</a></i> (written 1265–1274),<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and discussion of the concept can be found as far back as <a href="/wiki/Origen" title="Origen">Origen</a> (3rd century). </p><p>When and how the term was taken by logicians to refer to the very different state of persons who deliberately refuse to attend to evidence remains unclear, but one of its first uses was in the book <i>Fallacy: The Counterfeit of Argument </i> by W. Ward Fearnside and William B. Holther<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1959. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invincible_ignorance_fallacy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Empirical_evidence" title="Empirical evidence">A posteriori</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_priori_and_a_posteriori" title="A priori and a posteriori">A priori</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Future_probation" title="Future probation">Future probation</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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