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Not sure how you jumped from "rumor" to "evidence". Prefixing it with "weak" does nothing when you are trying to link "evidence" with "rumor". A rumor is a rum
by ranguna 3y ago
Not sure how you jumped from "rumor" to "evidence". Prefixing it with "weak" does nothing when you are trying to link "evidence" with "rumor".
A rumor is a rumor. If you want to talk about it, have fun, you might be lucky and it's true, but more often than not when marketing is involved, it's far from being the truth.
- andrewflnr 3y agoThe fact that the rumor exists is a different state of the world than if that rumor didn't exist, or a different rumor existed. Sometimes that implies things. If it wasn't made up from whole cloth, someone closer to the truth than you actually thinks that's true. They could still be full of crap, yes, but you don't necessarily want to discount them, either. If it was made from whole cloth, sometimes you can learn things from what you adversary wants you to believe. I don't think this is difficult logic.
- ranguna 3y ago> They could still be full of crap, yes, but you don't necessarily want to discount them, either. I agree. But going from this, to calling a rumor "weak" evidence is a long stretch.