One type of fallacy is to claim "that because we cannot prove something has not happened or does not exist, it therefore must have happened or must exist." We call this

(a) a fallacy in reasoning.
(b) a fallacy of appeal.
(c) a fallacy in language use.
(d) a fallacy of evaluation.


B

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