I love taking common platitudes from rationality and pointing out the exceptions. Why? Because I hate when a short catchy maxim is used incorrectly to belittle others’ rational arguments. The irony […]
In my last article I discussed the popular rule “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence,” often associated with the argument from ignorance. However, this popular mantra, and almost every […]
I love this popular little mantra: the absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence, also known as the fallacy of the argument from ignorance. If you’re not already familiar with […]
By Julien Musolino Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University Francis Bacon, one of the fathers of the scientific revolution, warned us in the early 17th century that without the methods and […]
Applied Sentience 