RE: Anecdotal Evidence
November 3, 2016 at 11:55 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2016 at 11:56 am by Edwardo Piet.)
@ Mister Agenda.
The anecdotes themselves aren't evidence. No story is evidence... it's how they match up with other stories/anecdotes that is evidence. Inductive logic is used to determine that it's improbable that multiple stories would be matching, and that equates to evidence. Take any one person's story or anecdote and isolate it... that isn't evidence, that's a claim and a story/anecdote. You can't use the claim or story itself as evidence for itself at all, not even weakly, that would be circular.
The anecdotes themselves aren't evidence. No story is evidence... it's how they match up with other stories/anecdotes that is evidence. Inductive logic is used to determine that it's improbable that multiple stories would be matching, and that equates to evidence. Take any one person's story or anecdote and isolate it... that isn't evidence, that's a claim and a story/anecdote. You can't use the claim or story itself as evidence for itself at all, not even weakly, that would be circular.
