Kelt, since I knew that your comment wouldn't stay long I felt inclined to post a reply as well. I'm pretty sure that mine will stay up, but we'll see. Cheers!
Loose Lips Wednesday, 09/14/16 04:30:30 PM
Re: TheMonolith post# 159288
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It's so easy to know that your wrong because you literally call out the logical fallacy of which you are using in your argument: 'burden of proof'. Here is a link describing why your argument is invalid.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof
"The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove. The inability, or disinclination, to disprove a claim does not render that claim valid, nor give it any credence whatsoever. However it is important to note that we can never be certain of anything, and so we must assign value to any claim based on the available evidence, and to dismiss something on the basis that it hasn't been proven beyond all doubt is also fallacious reasoning.
Example: Bertrand declares that a teapot is, at this very moment, in orbit around the Sun between the Earth and Mars, and that because no one can prove him wrong, his claim is therefore a valid one."
For those who are interested I encourage you to spend a few minutes reviewing the list of logical fallacies. I think that you will find many posts here heavily utilize the different fallacies to make their points. Once one understand them, then it is easy to weed out the nonsense from any legitimate concerns about CTIX
Loose Lips Wednesday, 09/14/16 04:30:30 PM
Re: TheMonolith post# 159288
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of 159306 Go
It's so easy to know that your wrong because you literally call out the logical fallacy of which you are using in your argument: 'burden of proof'. Here is a link describing why your argument is invalid.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof
"The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove. The inability, or disinclination, to disprove a claim does not render that claim valid, nor give it any credence whatsoever. However it is important to note that we can never be certain of anything, and so we must assign value to any claim based on the available evidence, and to dismiss something on the basis that it hasn't been proven beyond all doubt is also fallacious reasoning.
Example: Bertrand declares that a teapot is, at this very moment, in orbit around the Sun between the Earth and Mars, and that because no one can prove him wrong, his claim is therefore a valid one."
For those who are interested I encourage you to spend a few minutes reviewing the list of logical fallacies. I think that you will find many posts here heavily utilize the different fallacies to make their points. Once one understand them, then it is easy to weed out the nonsense from any legitimate concerns about CTIX
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