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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

12223	It is a fallacy to explain the obscure with the even more obscure [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: The fallacy of 'ad obscurum per obscurius' is to explain the obscure by appeal to what is more obscure.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §3)
	A reaction: Not strictly a fallacy, so much as an example of inadequate explanation, along with circularity and infinite regresses.