If your roommate tries to convince you that the college cafeteria uses leftovers from students' dinner trays to make stew for the next day's lunch by arguing that they have never seen the leftovers actually thrown out,your roommate's argument is using
A) an appeal to ignorance.
B) an appeal to knowledge.
C) logic.
D) reification.

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The roommate's argument is based on lack of evidence or ignorance, rather than actually proving that the cafeteria uses leftovers for the next day's stew. This is known as appeal to ignorance.

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