↑ 1.01.11.2Bernecker, Sven; Pritchard, Duncan (2011). The Routledge Companion to Epistemology. New York, London: Routledge Philosophy Companions. p. 64-65. ISBN978-0-415-72269-8. arguments from silence are, as a rule, quite weak; there are many examples where reasoning from silence would lead us astray.
↑ 6.06.1Howell & Prevenier (2001), pp. 73–74 "Another difficulty with argument from silence is that historians cannot assume that an observer of a particular fact would have automatically recorded that fact. Authors observe all kinds of events but only record those that seem important to them."
↑ 7.07.1Chitnis, K. N. (2006). Research Methodology in History. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 56. ISBN978-81-7156-121-6.
↑ 8.08.18.2Duncan (2012), pp. 83–84: "Scholarly examinations of the Arguments From Silence (AFS) are extremely rare; when existent it is typically treated as a fallacy."
↑ 9.09.19.2Duncan, Michael Gary (2012). "The Curious Silence of the Dog and Paul of Tarsus; Revisiting The Argument from Silence". Informal Logic. 32 (1): 85. doi:10.22329/il.v32i1.3139. ISSN0824-2577.
↑Bissa, Errietta M. A. (2009). Governmental Intervention in Foreign Trade in Archaic and Classical Greece. Leiden: BRILL. p. 21. ISBN90-04-17504-0. This is a fundamental methodological issue on the validity of arguments from silence, where I wish to make my position clear: arguments from silence are not valid.
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Barnes, Timothy (1991). Hazlett, Ian (บ.ก.). Pagan Perceptions of Christianity. Early Christianity: Origins and Evolution to AD 600. Nashville (Tenn.): Abingdon press. p. 232. ISBN0-687-11444-6. Most inhabitants of the Roman Empire in A.D. 100 were either unaware of or uninterested in the Christians in their midst. Even in Rome, where there had certainly been Christians since the reign of Claudius, the varied epigrams of Martial and the satires of Juvenal make no identifiable allusion to the new religion, though both authors deride Jews and Judaism.
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Swain, Hilary; Davies, Mark Everson (2010). Aspects of Roman History, 82 BC-AD 14. London: Routledge. p. 79. ISBN978-0-415-49694-0.
↑Lampe, Peter (2006). Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries. A&C Black. pp. 141–42. ISBN978-1-4411-1004-6. It was not desirable, at least for the first two centuries, for the average Christian to advertise his or her Christianity openly ... Seen in this manner, the silence of the evidence attests not only to the "plerique paupers." It also indicates how Christians wisely did not reveal their identity to every potential denunciator.
↑Briant, Pierre (2002). From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns. p. 804. ISBN1-57506-031-0. Only rarely are we (fleetingly) informed about commercial prosperity of the sort achieved by Sidon around the middle of the fourth century ... The recent discovery of a customs memorandum from Egypt dating to the time of Xerxes reminds us of the dangers of any argument from silence.
↑Gibson, Roy K.; Morello, Ruth (2012-03-22). Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 110. ISBN978-0-521-84292-1. By the standards of Pliny's letters, the two accounts are remarkably precise in terms of facts and figures.