(October 6, 2016 at 10:51 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(October 6, 2016 at 3:54 am)robvalue Wrote: (Before a religious person jumps all over me for making statements of fact I can't back up, let me say this. I'm talking informally. I'm not in science/formal logic mode all the time.
When I say "X didn't happen", what I actually mean is, "There is absolutely no credible evidence to support event X happening, and plenty of reason to think it didn't happen, including simple explanations that require no assumptions which are extremely more likely than this outlandish claim". My sentences would get a bit long if I went into such detail all the time. The argument from ignorance is popular, and it is really stupid. The time I take claims which clash with reality seriously is the point at which evidence is presented. I'm happy to look at it. But anecdotes are not credible evidence of anything beyond the mundane.)
So basically you don't need to support your argument (it is assumed to be true) until it is proven false then?
Also, I may need to start a thread where someone can support this claim, that anecdotes are not credible evidence for things beyond the mundane. I'm still fuzzy on the reasoning behind this principle.
That's not what he is saying at ALL, and you know it.
About the anecdotes thread...PLEASE do.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.