The concluding stage: The concluding rule

Abstract

In the following tirade from the Dutch feminist author and politician Anja Meulenbelt a fallacious train of thought is exposed. In her reaction to comments from Hein Roethof, who was in the 1980 s a member of Dutch parliament for the PvdA (Dutch labor party) of the Lower House and – as spokesman for judicial matters – had branded the actions of the feminists against pornography as “self-appointed moral censorship,” Anja Meulenbelt accused him of committing the argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy, without actually using this term in so many words:.