Ignotum-per-ignotius Definition
noun
An attempt to explain something obscure in terms of something else which is even more obscure.
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(logic) A type of fallacious argument in which one attempts to prove something unknown by relying upon an assumption that is also unknown.
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Origin of Ignotum-per-ignotius
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Latin for the unknown by the more unknown.
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