Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "We know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. There is no evidence that it is Audrey. In fact, she's too clean, if you know what I mean. Somebody should fire Audrey; she's got to be the spy." By making this argument Chris is actually engaging in __________.
A) an appeal to emotion fallacy
B) a straw man fallacy
C) an appeal to ignorance fallacy
D) circular reasoning
E) an appeal to the mob fallacy

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Chris is using the lack of evidence against Audrey as a reason to suspect her, which is an example of an appeal to ignorance fallacy. This fallacy occurs when it's argued that a proposition is true simply because it has not been proven false or vice versa.

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