Christian Texts and History • Say It Ain't So Joe

The saying "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" has been attributed to the late 19th-century Scottish geologist Dugald Bell. (Though I have not yet found it in his available publications; If anyone can find that, please let me know.) For details on what's known about that quotation history, see:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/09/17/absence/

For a partial critique and proposed modification of that saying, see:

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23493/ ... 0Final.pdf

Or, if that link does not work, you could search for "When Should Absence of Evidence Be Evidence of Absence?
A Case Study from Paleogeology
Matthew Brewer"

In any case, I suggest caution in accepting some TF-origin claims.

Statistics: Posted by JoeWallack — Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:07 pm