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DanArmak comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 13 July 2013 03:20:03PM 1 point [-]

it is possible for some evidence to exist in favor of false propositions.

This is possible with any definition of evidence. Every bit of information you receive makes you discard some theories which have been disproven, so it's evidence in favour of each of the ones you don't discard. But only one of those is fully true; the others are false.