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An attempt to explain something obscure in terms of something else which is even more obscure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A type of fallacious argument in which one attempts to prove something unknown by relying upon an assumption that is also unknown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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History
From Latin ignōtum per ignōtius, “[to explain] the unknown by the more unknown”.
