Argument from personal incredulity

What it is

Rejects a claim because the speaker finds it hard to imagine or understand. What one person can't imagine says little about what is true.

Related

• Availability heuristic bias
  If we can't easily imagine something, we judge it unlikely, which is the availability heuristic in reverse.
• Appeal to ignorance fallacy
  Both turn a gap in knowledge, ours or everyone's, into a conclusion about the world.
• Dunning-Kruger effect bias
  Finding something implausible because you do not understand it is typical of limited knowledge about the subject.

References

• Wikipedia: Argument from personal incredulity en.wikipedia.org
• Your Logical Fallacy Is: Personal incredulity yourlogicalfallacyis.com
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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