In Reply to: Re: Aha posted by Steve Eddy on October 21, 2006 at 08:56:53:
SE - None. But that's all that can be concluded. Lack of proof for something doesn't constitute proof against it. Or as the old saying goes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
What you err on is the side of faulty reasoning. Argumentum ad ignorantium or argument from ignorance. To err on the side of caution would be to conclude nothing more than there is currently no proof.I'll add "may be" next time. Maybe.
cheers,
AJ
The threshold for disproving something is higher than the threshold for saying it, which is a recipe for the accumulation of bullshit - Softky
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