RE: Anecdotal Evidence
November 2, 2016 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2016 at 9:07 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 2, 2016 at 8:56 am)Irrational Wrote: This is a little too assertive a position to have, though. If anecdotes don't lend any support whatsoever, then the courts should do away with witness testimonies. They're virtually pointless given your argument.
It's not the anecdotes that are evidence... it's the fact the anecdotes are consistent with each other plus there also being evidence that it's unlikely that one person has started an anecdote and the rest have just followed suit. Like... if some of the witnesses were not even in communication with each other and there's evidence of that, then it can't be a case of one person believing and the rest following suit. Then the consistency between the anecdotes means something. The anecdotes themselves are not evidence.
TL;DR: Without inductive reasoning of any kind there is no evidence.
