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 he has never seen the leftovers actually thrown out,what argument is your roommate using

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The roommate is using an appeal to ignorance by assuming that just because he has never seen the leftovers thrown out, they must be used in the stew. This argument lacks evidence and relies on a lack of evidence to make a claim.

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