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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 20 July 2015 05:36:34AM 3 points [-]

No, that's a perfectly good argument unless your opponent can provide stronger evidence in the other direction.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 20 July 2015 07:11:51AM 2 points [-]

Arguments are not resolved by seeing who can pile it higher and deeper. Not everything that is claimed to be evidence is.

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 July 2015 02:22:38PM -2 points [-]

If there weak Bayesian evidence for one side of the issue and no evidence for the other side that means in total the issue is undecided and both sides can be true.

Comment author: ChristianKl 19 July 2015 07:33:10PM 1 point [-]

I think the instinctual response to that argument should be an request to quantify the evidence. If someone says "Bayesian evidence" they should provide real numbers.

Comment author: David_Bolin 19 July 2015 07:28:27PM 1 point [-]

That isn't really fully general because not everything is evidence in favor of your conclusion. Some things are evidence against it.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 19 July 2015 09:22:17PM 0 points [-]

It is fully general at least in the sense that it admits a weak response which at the same time simulates compromise and weaking the other position.

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