@ PR, I certainly don't feel offended. I think you are confused by what I mean.....
When I say "I don't believe I know of any evidence", it is opposed to: "I don't know of any evidence" - which is a more absolutist claim. Hence I am being more intellectually honest than if I claimed to simply know I had know evidence because - how can I know that I know of no evidence?
It's as far away from the argument from ignorance as you can get, if this is the argument from ignorance, then I guess any statement is!!
Once more, if you can please cite where I made the argument from ignorance PR (assuming you know what it is) then you are more than welcome to charge me with it. You're also welcome to charge me without citing where I made it - so long as you make it clear that you are making a joke because you can't even cite where I made it.
An ignorant regress is indeed not required. But when someone says they "don't believe that X" - it is commonly understood to be not an absolute claim. So I was just trying to be accurate and clearly intellectually honest - the opposite of the argument from ignorance.
@tackattack. Yes I am being more verbose for accuracy - but my problem is not with PR wanting more conciseness from me - my problem is with his claim that I have made the argument from ignorance.
EvF
When I say "I don't believe I know of any evidence", it is opposed to: "I don't know of any evidence" - which is a more absolutist claim. Hence I am being more intellectually honest than if I claimed to simply know I had know evidence because - how can I know that I know of no evidence?
It's as far away from the argument from ignorance as you can get, if this is the argument from ignorance, then I guess any statement is!!
Once more, if you can please cite where I made the argument from ignorance PR (assuming you know what it is) then you are more than welcome to charge me with it. You're also welcome to charge me without citing where I made it - so long as you make it clear that you are making a joke because you can't even cite where I made it.
An ignorant regress is indeed not required. But when someone says they "don't believe that X" - it is commonly understood to be not an absolute claim. So I was just trying to be accurate and clearly intellectually honest - the opposite of the argument from ignorance.
@tackattack. Yes I am being more verbose for accuracy - but my problem is not with PR wanting more conciseness from me - my problem is with his claim that I have made the argument from ignorance.
EvF
