dsgrue3 on 21 December 2012
| GameOver22 said: Are you being serious or facetious? I actually have to make an argument in order for it to be an anecdotal fallacy.....as in I need to argue that an isolated incidence implies some general truth. I just made the simple observation that I've seen an academic cite wikipedia...not that this means academics cite wikipedia all the time. I mean.....I actually mentioned I was surprised that the book cited wikipedia.....because I've never seen another academic work cite wikipedia. |
If you weren't making a counter-argument, then why bring it up at all? Pointless.
| happydolphin said: As I have shown to dsgrue, one simply cannot stand and claim that the absence of evidence is proof for inexistence. |
Depends on the definition for existence. But yes, it is a null hypothesis in general terms.
