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9 Post author: Alexandros 12 March 2011 08:00PM

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Comment author: anonym 13 March 2011 07:00:11PM 0 points [-]

This doesn't make sense to me. The presence or absence of evidence does not determine whether a fact exists or not. Evidence refers to the basis for a belief. There can be evidence for non-facts (e.g., opinions), as well as no evidence for facts (e.g., whether the nth heaviest dinosaur that ever existed was doing something that we expect there to be a 50% chance of it doing when it was exactly 1 year old).