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VoiceOfRa comments on List of Fully General Counterarguments - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 July 2015 09:49PM

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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.