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In Reply to: posted by on December , at :
You find the proof in the same place as where you find the proof that it worked.And you'll find that bit of fallacy in the trash, filed under appeal to ignorance.
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I haven't seen any proof one way or the other.se
And that's all I was saying.
And that's all I was saying.
Ah, ok. It seemed at first blush that you were saying that the proof that it did nothing stemmed from the lack of proof that it did something, rather than saying there was no proof either way.
Thanks. My bad.
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"Similarly, the burden of proof is usually on a person making a new or improbable claim, and the presumption may be that such a claim is false. For instance, suppose that I claim that I was taken by flying saucer to another planet, but when challenged I can supply no evidence of this unusual trip. It would not be an Appeal to Ignorance for you to reason that, since there is no evidence that I visited another planet, therefore I probably didn't do so."
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