Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia :) Colloquial translation for those of you playing along at home: The burden of proof lies with he who affirms not he

Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia :) Colloquial translation for those of you playing along at home: The burden of proof lies with he who affirms not he who denies, since by the nature of things, he who denies cannot produce any proof. (This is the classic statement of the presumption of innocence, and also one of the core principles in the dawn of Enlightenment era science, where it was adapted into our modern understanding of scientific skepticism.) >That which is said in Latin seems deep. Just because something is abused does not mean that a proper usage of the same is also wrong. We're also attempting to communicate solely through well known quotations, which poses its own set of unique constraints.