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I think maybe it means that results were less than sensationally wonderful, but the argumentum a silentio is notoriously unreliable.

Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

I think maybe it means that results were less than sensationally wonderful, but the argumentum a silentio is notoriously unreliable.

Archive 2009-08-01 Jean 2009

Note 77: Annales Marbacenses, p. 83: "Sic ergo decepti et confusi redire ceperunt; et qui prius gregatim et per turmas suas et numquam sine cantu celeumatis transire solebant per terras, modo singillatim et in silentio, nudipedes et famelici redeuntes facti sunt omnibus in derisum, quia plurime virgines rapte et florem pudicicie sue amiserunt." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

But here again, the critics use the argument e silentio which is not conclusive in this case.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

This critical exception is really an argument e silentio which is very apt to be fallacious, unless it be most carefully handled.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

The argument from silence (also called argumentum a silentio in Latin) is that the silence of a speaker or writer about X proves or suggests that the speaker or writer is ignorant of X.

Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The latter's Hymnus for baritone and four violas da gamba is one of three vocal pieces on the CD, the others being Schmelzer's "Del silentio notturno" and Valentini's "In te domini speravi."

Album reviews: 17th century works for viola da gamba 2010

The fact that *melit is not attested in the eastern branches by which we mean Indo-Iranian and Tocharian, presumably; Balto-Slavic is rather in-between is not evidence for anything in itself; that is an argumentum ex silentio, which I'm sure you're aware is a logical fallacy.

My sweet honey bee 2010

Until the Bible is proven to be a work of non-fiction and Johannes de silentio is proven to be a real person, Fear and Trembling is fiction written by a fictional character.

Kafka 2010

The problem with sub silentio 3PB designations is that they require parties to perform promises to people with whom the contracting party may have no relationship whatsoever.

Third Party Beneficiaries and Other Fantastical Beasts in Virtual Worlds 2009