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Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Yeah we've noticed that your entire argument is from ignorance - you claim to be using logic and yet the basis of your possition is a hoary old logical fallacy and you keep advertising the fact.
I've corrected you on this numerous times yet you continue to spread blatant lies anyway.
The fact that you cannot prove a negative, is not an argument from ignorance. It's a fact.
If it was an argument from ignorance I would be saying, "Chemtrails exist because you can't prove me wrong!" But I'm not. You just wish I was because you want to be right about something.
Are you trying to definitively argue that chemtrails don't exist (as if you have evidence of this?), or not?
Originally posted by qmantoo
... and I suppose you can provide links to this discrediting by reputable scientists?
Originally posted by qmantoo
As I said before, many things are not accepted by science but that does not mean they have no validity in the real world.
Originally posted by qmantoo
It is really sad that nothing exists for some people unless it is proven by those they feel are authorities in the subject.
Originally posted by qmantoo
Like the absolute and utter rubbish data we sometimes get from NASA, there are 'authorities' which have larger agendas than telling you and I the real picture about what is going on.
Originally posted by qmantoo
Pay enough for a report and get what you want. There are prostitutes in every business. not least the petrochemical and pharmacutical industries.
Originally posted by someguy420
I've been hearing about this for a while now, and I'm not going to lie I'm still a bit skeptical, but with everything I've learned from ats about frequency and vibration, it makes enough sense to at least give it a try.
Does anyone else notice anything odd in the helicopter videos? That's right clear blue sky!!! I can say that I haven't seen that in a while, and it does stand out in the videos, Maybe the stats could learn something from the hats.
Originally posted by adeclerk
Originally posted by Amaterasu
I'm probably more broke than You... But the shooter costs maybe $15 to construct and is very easy to build. See the thread SX linked to.
Maybe someone can buy this for me. Several dollars worth of parts for mere hundreds! And a free ridiculous description that has no basis in fact.
Originally posted by adeclerk
We actually can prove a negative, it is known by logicians.
Let's prove that 'orgone cloudbusters' don't work using simple logic.
1. If cloudbusters worked there would be some sort of evidence that they did.
Appeal to Ignorance
...
There is no evidence for p.
Therefore, not-p.
2. No evidence exists to show that a cloud buster has created nor destroyed clouds.
3. Therefore, we must conclude that cloudbusters are bunk.
Originally posted by firepilot
Hmmm, so how many of you that support this Orgone energy are willing to do more than just talk about it online. I mean to demonstrate how much you believe in it, by actually buying the products.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Yeah we've noticed that your entire argument is from ignorance - you claim to be using logic and yet the basis of your possition is a hoary old logical fallacy and you keep advertising the fact.
I've corrected you on this numerous times yet you continue to spread blatant lies anyway.
The fact that you cannot prove a negative, is not an argument from ignorance. It's a fact.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by adeclerk
We actually can prove a negative, it is known by logicians.
Let's prove that 'orgone cloudbusters' don't work using simple logic.
1. If cloudbusters worked there would be some sort of evidence that they did.
Appeal to Ignorance
...
There is no evidence for p.
Therefore, not-p.
www.fallacyfiles.org...
Your first point is a logical fallacy.... strike one...
There are a few types of reasoning which resemble the fallacy of Appeal to Ignorance, and need to be distinguished from it:
...
Another type of reasoning is called "auto-epistemic" ("self-knowing") because it involves reasoning from premisses about what one knows and what one would know if something were true. The form of such reasoning is:
If p were true, then I would know that p.
I don't know that p.
Therefore, p is false.
For instance, one might reason:
If I were adopted, then I would know about it by now.
I don't know that I'm adopted.
Therefore, I wasn't adopted.
Similarly, when extensive investigation has been undertaken, it is often reasonable to infer that something is false based upon a lack of positive evidence for it. For instance, if a drug has been subjected to lengthy testing for harmful effects and none has been discovered, it is then reasonable to conclude that it is safe. Another example is:
If there really were a large and unusual type of animal in Loch Ness, then we would have undeniable evidence of it by now.
We don't have undeniable evidence of a large, unfamiliar animal in Loch Ness.
Therefore, there is no such animal.
As with reasoning using the closed world assumption, auto-epistemic reasoning does not commit the fallacy of Argument from Ignorance.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by firepilot
Hmmm, so how many of you that support this Orgone energy are willing to do more than just talk about it online. I mean to demonstrate how much you believe in it, by actually buying the products.
Buying the products is the lazy way of doing it. You could make the stuff yourself with a few inexpensive things from Lowe's. I guess next you'll tell me that Lowe's is making all of this stuff up to make money selling resin and scraps of metal.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Argument from ignorance is a shifting the discussion to having to prove the negative in order to change the Burden of proof.
Originally posted by qmantoo
Your comment about energy/qi used in acupuncture which flows throught the meridians of the body is interesting. You are dismissing thousands of years of culture, research and circumstantial and scientific evidence with a throw-away statement.
Originally posted by qmantoo
Sad really, because the obvious adherence to science and logic will save us all from being hoodwinked and scammed - wont it?.
Originally posted by qmantoo
I have noticed there must be a lot of fear in the lives of some people. It emerges as a dogmatic clinging to the known scientific concepts and current understandings. The ability to move past these and into new and greater understandings is only achieved by letting go of old paradigms and embracing new ones.
Originally posted by qmantoo
Of course, there is also fear that we may make a mistake and that wont do... will it? The need to be super-human and NEVER make a mistake is driving force for a lot of people and it is a constraint which they would do well to release for their health's sake.
Originally posted by Uncinus
So by your own link, this is auto-epistemic, and not a fallacy.
An appeal to ignorance is an argument for or against a proposition on the basis of a lack of evidence against or for it. If there is positive evidence for the conclusion, then of course we have other reasons for accepting it, but a lack of evidence by itself is no evidence.
Another type of reasoning is called "auto-epistemic" ("self-knowing") because it involves reasoning from premisses about what one knows and what one would know if something were true.
Originally posted by firepilot
So, we can assume with that statement, that you will show us where Lowes has promoted "Orgone" energy.