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Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by AdpathwayHi, I'm looking for a well-known quote from your posts that's frequently used to prove facts or refute claims. I think it's a maximum of 20 words. Thanks in advance.
Hi, I'm looking for a well-known quote from your posts that's frequently used to prove facts or refute claims. I think it's a maximum of 20 words. Thanks in advance.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is a staple. Welcome!
"Außergewöhnliche Behauptungen erfordern außergewöhnliche Beweise" ist ein Grundsatz. Herzlich willkommen!
Thank you so much, I've been a member for a while now. But there was another frequently cited statement that can be used to refute these claims.
Thank you so much, I've been a member for a while now. But there was another frequently cited statement that can be used to refute these claims.
You might need to be a tad more specific. Which claims?
There's Hitchens's razor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens's_razor
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
But there's no one quote that encompasses everything.
You might need to be a tad more specific. Which claims?
There's Hitchens's razor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens's_razor
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
But there's no one quote that encompasses everything.
I was going to quote exactly this, but I don't think it fits what we do on this site. We dismiss with evidence.
I was going to quote exactly this, but I don't think it fits what we do on this site. We dismiss with evidence.
We do both. Preferably with evidence, but a lot of the time we point out an absence of evidence (when that evidence would be expected) as evidence of absence. Also, (to Hitchens' point) an absence of evidence means there's no reason to believe in something, so you can equally disbelieve it (although then we have the issue of the equal weight fallacy)
Thank you so much, I've been a member for a while now. But there was another frequently cited statement that can be used to refute these claims.
Do you remember anything about the context where you saw it used, @Sebastian ?
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Occam's Razor, or the principle of parsimony, is often quoted as
"Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" in English; originally Latin Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor).
More commonly it is paraphrased as
"The simplest explanation is the best".
External Quote:
This philosophical razor advocates that when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction and both hypotheses have equal explanatory power, one should prefer the hypothesis that requires the fewest assumptions, and that this is not meant to be a way of choosing between hypotheses that make different predictions. Similarly, in science, Occam's razor is used as an abductive heuristic in the development of theoretical models rather than as a rigorous arbiter between candidate models
(Wikipedia).
There are more complex variants along the lines of
"The simplest explanation that takes into account all the available evidence is usually the best".
What constitutes evidence, or relevant evidence, might be arguable.
The meaning of "simplest explanation" is sometimes misunderstood, for example if we're talking about the construction of the Giza pyramids, "Aliens did it" is a linguistically simple explanation which is easily understood, but it involves the "multiplication of entities" for which there is no evidence, i.e. intelligent extraterrestrial visitors in ancient Egypt, and it ignores available evidence about the evolution of pyramid building, known Egyptian abilities in quarrying and stonemasonry, etc. etc.)
Thank you so much, I've been a member for a while now. But there was another frequently cited statement that can be used to refute these claims.
Claims that can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence?















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