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And yet, people confuse the two. "There is no evidence for life elsewhere in the universe." "So you believe we're alone in the universe?"

• cadabrabra 9mo ago
  It’s a common confusion, often subconsciously deployed in the context of trying to cope with the possibility of something undesirable turning out to be true.
  • pfdietz 9mo ago
    It's also important to distinguish "I don't believe X" from "I believe not-X". English is poorly suited to expressing this distinction.
  • buttstuff69420 9mo ago
    No. What happened here is you confused semantics for logic.