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14343463 No.14343463 [Reply] [Original]

>the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence

>> No.14343470

>>14343463
>HHHHHHOOOWWWW Did you know I knew that I know

>> No.14343478

Talk about ABsence

>> No.14343488

>>14343463
While this is true, it's used almost exclusively by idiots wanting to justify their idiocy. Only makes sense in the context of something like Taleb's Black Swan.

>> No.14343496

Reminder to ignore all pseudointellectual rhetoriticians and instead go and read the complete works of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripedes, Hesiod, Aristophones, Herodotus, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Wyatt, Sidney, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegal, Hegel, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Leopardi, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentjier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann. Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann,Sillanpää, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xinjiang, Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Elizabeth Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara

>> No.14343499

>>14343496
Based to the core

>> No.14343519
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>>14343496
I love this lil nigga like you wouldn’t believe

>> No.14343527

>>14343496
>complete works of aristotle
why would you do that to yourself

>> No.14343536

>>14343527
I LOVE FUCKING PAIN

>> No.14343539

>>14343496
>Transtromer,
transformers aren't real retard

>> No.14344350

>>14343463
This is actually trivially false. The absence of evidence is in fact the evidence of absence.

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>>14344350

>> No.14344702

>>14344350
Oh so was water literally not H2O until we understood what Hydrogen and Oxygen were?

>> No.14344725

>>14344350
>New Atheist: There is no evidence for God therefore I KNOW there is no God

>> No.14344737

>>14343496
Fucking based

>> No.14344749

>>14343463
that which can be accepted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

>> No.14344835

>>14344725
All atheists think like that, though. That's why they're stupid.

>> No.14344840

>>14343496
Might make my own version with some Hindu classics on it and start posting it

>> No.14344850
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>>14343463
based snakeman

>> No.14345258

>>14344725

We can't say there is no God but we can affirm every religion known is a delusion .Maybe you guys should come up with something more sober than angels and demons LMAO.

>> No.14345263

>>14343488
And cancer diagnosis, and people making shit up. It's a logical axiom, don't downplay it

>> No.14345296

>>14344725
What? That's literally genuine Atheism though. You might be confusing Atheists for Agnostics, who are dirty fence-riding bums who are just scared of theological thought and thus choose to abstain from it via a baby excuse masquerading as a valid philosophy.

>> No.14345300

>>14345258
God is self-evident though. The fact that the universe as we perceive it exists proves it, and the fact that th

>> No.14345305

>>14345300
and the fact that the concept of God exists, in itself, proves it.*

>> No.14345319

>>14345305
don't forget entropy. I'm too tired to explain but you'll figure it out anyway