Frank_Ch._Eigler comments on Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Frank_Ch._Eigler 13 August 2007 01:35:15AM 2 points [-]

A and ~A are not each evidence for B, if B is "there is a fifth column active". In some ways, as I said, they already knew B - it was true. There were questions of degree - how organized? how ready? how many? - for which A and ~A each provide some hints at.