(September 27, 2009 at 6:48 pm)Arcanus Wrote: As I have said before, "An unsupported conclusion is just an assumption trying to look presentable. Conclusions are drawn from arguments, not thin air. The burden of proof is your duty to expose the argument from which your conclusion is drawn."
What I did was said that it's no argument to just assert things. Maybe they do indeed have a hidden arguement, but if they're just going to barely assert stuff then that's not argumentation. So I say that barely asserting things is no argument, because I am telling them that if they're actually to be taken seriously they have to elaborate a bit more than simply barely asserting things with nothing to back it up whatsoever.
If I said that trees in the Amazon rainforest can talk, I wouldn't call that an argument for the truth of such a thing. Maybe I have hidden arguments for that, but it's no argument to simply assert it. And in being told that (that it's no argument) I am being told that I need to actually back up that assertion if I am to be taken seriously. It's no argument whatsoever for the truth that trees in the Amazon rainforest can talk, to simply barely assert it.
EvF
