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by chipt4 895 days ago
What an excellent rebuttal. Care to provide some sauce?
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Spivak 895 days ago
"I think it's X with no evidence"

"I think it's Y with no evidence"

"Woah woah there, how dare you disagree with the groupthink, are you prepared to cite some sources?"

Why does X but not Y get to be presumed true until proven otherwise? Because we really want X to be true okayy.

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albedoa 895 days ago
That is not how it went. The first person took a guess, and the second implied information that we don't have:

"I guess X"

"You are guessing wrong"

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Qwertious 894 days ago
>Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
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albedoa 894 days ago
Yes! Now, what was asserted without evidence?
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