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This is ignoring other words that we have. If Crazy Carl says that something happened, that is a claim, not evidence. That something is missing is evidence, b
by taeric 3y ago
This is ignoring other words that we have. If Crazy Carl says that something happened, that is a claim, not evidence. That something is missing is evidence, but not that anyone/anything in particular took it.
And pushing that "alleged facts" boil down to "someone says" is ignoring some methods of science. Some people have recorded what the value of gravity on earth is. They have also recorded an analytic equation to calculate it, with the argument that it would work in other locations. They have then worked examples validating the equation in other locations. They have also given directions for how you can, personally, validate the value where you are. This is all very different than "someone says."
- MichaelZuo 3y agoCourts would consider it to be 'evidence' if 'Crazy Carl' was saying it on the witness stand, just very low quality and unpersuasive 'evidence'.
- taeric 3y agoFair, I should have said "physical evidence" there for the missing items. My point was more that there is a difference, even if you can lump them in a very broad category term.
- alexvoda 3y agoMaybe we should not be mixing the meaning of "evidence" in a scientific context with the meaning in a legal context. Clearly science does not care about human laws, verdicts, juries, etc.. Different contexts, different meanings. Just because an unsupported claim can be valid legal evidence does not mean it can be scientific evidence.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoIn the scientific context it would still be considered 'evidence' of some kind because there is indeed a very very very small chance an alien in fact, in ground truth, stole the prized turnip for whatever reasons.
- pixl97 3y agoOr, in cases where corroborating evidence does not exist, one should believe the high frequence event causation rather than the low one first.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoSure, but it's still evidence to some degree.