@Raspberry_yoghurt you are implicitly using the fallacy "A does not imply B and A is true so B must be false".
@thence said in #61:
> @Raspberry_yoghurt you are implicitly using the fallacy "A does not imply B and A is true so B must be false".
I wouldn't say so.
But I'd say that if a statement like "Zelenskiy was a founding member of Black Eyes Peas" isn't supported by premises, then by default you'd consider it to be false.
In "pure" logic it would just have an undecided truth status the same as any other statement, you're right. "Zelenskiy was a founding member of Black Eyes Peas" and "Zelekskiy has at one point in his life tasted apple juice" are in pure logic just statements that might be true or false, and then their it depends if they're supported by premised.
But in applied logic such as how scientists think when they work, you consider outlandish stuff to be false by default.
So if you have two statements with no basis, then "Zelenskiy has at one point in his life tasted apple juice" would be considered to be true, in the sense that "we work with the assumption that it is true, but let's bear in mind that it CAN turn out to be false" but "Zelenskiy was a founding member of Black Eyes Peas" is just rejected right off the bat.
> @Raspberry_yoghurt you are implicitly using the fallacy "A does not imply B and A is true so B must be false".
I wouldn't say so.
But I'd say that if a statement like "Zelenskiy was a founding member of Black Eyes Peas" isn't supported by premises, then by default you'd consider it to be false.
In "pure" logic it would just have an undecided truth status the same as any other statement, you're right. "Zelenskiy was a founding member of Black Eyes Peas" and "Zelekskiy has at one point in his life tasted apple juice" are in pure logic just statements that might be true or false, and then their it depends if they're supported by premised.
But in applied logic such as how scientists think when they work, you consider outlandish stuff to be false by default.
So if you have two statements with no basis, then "Zelenskiy has at one point in his life tasted apple juice" would be considered to be true, in the sense that "we work with the assumption that it is true, but let's bear in mind that it CAN turn out to be false" but "Zelenskiy was a founding member of Black Eyes Peas" is just rejected right off the bat.
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