Absence of Evidence is directly tied to having a probabilistic model of reality. There might be an inferential gap when people refer you to it, because on its own the argument doesn’t seem strong. But it’s a direct consequence of Bayesian reasoning, which IS a strong argument.
(Just to clarify: I didn’t mean to accuse you of ignorance, and I sympathize with having everyone spam you with links to the same material, which must be aggravating.)
Bayesian probabilistic reasoning is the unique (up to isomorphism) generalization of Aristotelian (two-valued) logic to reasoning about uncertainty. You can’t throw it out without inconsistency.
Absence of Evidence is directly tied to having a probabilistic model of reality. There might be an inferential gap when people refer you to it, because on its own the argument doesn’t seem strong. But it’s a direct consequence of Bayesian reasoning, which IS a strong argument.
(Just to clarify: I didn’t mean to accuse you of ignorance, and I sympathize with having everyone spam you with links to the same material, which must be aggravating.)
It’s certainly an important point, but I think that atheists tend to overuse it. I can’t begin to criticize Bayesian reasoning, especially not here.
Bayesian probabilistic reasoning is the unique (up to isomorphism) generalization of Aristotelian (two-valued) logic to reasoning about uncertainty. You can’t throw it out without inconsistency.
I never tried to. I know exactly how Bayes’ Theorem is mathematically derived and I won’t try to contest that.