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Oscar_Cunningham comments on More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 01 August 2013 10:27:27PM 5 points [-]

Indeed. To put it another way, "absence of evidence" is just a different kind of evidence. If hearing a dog bark would tell you something then not hearing it bark also tells you something.