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media type="custom" key="27884557" The appeal to ignorance fallacy occurs when an argument must be true because there is nothing to prove it wrong and no evidence to back it up.

The first commercial is an example of appeal to ignorance because it infers that the abominable snowman is real.The abominable snowman is an urban legend that hasn't been proved false. So, since this legendary creature is unknown to the world if it really roams the glaciers or not, it directly correlates with appeal to ignorance.

The second youtube video is about how there is water on mars and NASA has supposedly known about it. The appeal to ignorance comes in when the guy in the video assumes that we are not alone and because they haven't figured if there is, then there must be aliens living there. Also he assumes that since the government kept the information about the water, that they are also keeping information about extraterrestrial life.

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