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In general, sources from the middle ages aren't as sparse as people like to think. He isn't making that kind of error. The burden of proof is on the people mak
by cedilla 5y ago
In general, sources from the middle ages aren't as sparse as people like to think.
He isn't making that kind of error. The burden of proof is on the people making the claim. Otherwise any sort of weakly plausible reason for choosing the staircase direction would be true because there is "only" absence of evidence.
Absence of evidence here means that while you can't rule it out, you can't positively state it either.
- shatnersbassoon 5y ago-> Absence of evidence here means that while you can't rule it out, you can't positively state it either. Right, so calling it a "myth", as in the headline, is incorrect. That would imply that you know it to be false. The author is taking the lack of evidence to mean that it can't be true. And as for the burden of proof, as with any hypothesis, anyone is welcome to try to falsify it. I just don't believe that the evidence here has done that.