Anecdotal Evidence

Empirical evidence that somebody just doesn't want to look at.

Manray: "Is your name Patrick Star?"
Patrick: "Yes"
Manray: "...and is this your ID?"
Patrick: "Yes"
Manray: "Good, because I found this ID in this wallet, so if that's the case, this must be your wallet!"
Patrick: "But that's anecdotal evidence!"

by Some guy who's smarter than Va January 21, 2024

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Evident,eviDent, evidenT

by SuelTameOresuTeMato April 25, 2025

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Evidence

There is a difference between not actively having evidence with you and there not being any evidence. And a difference, again, between those 2 thing and hiding evidence deliberately explicitly so you can ask where the evidence is to make a banal point about religious uncertainty.

Hym "Additionally, if I say "I have evidence in a safe under my bed' and you refuse to check the safe and prevent me from opening the safe... That is ALSO not the absence of evidence. But your Jew ancestors did lie. They did not talk to the creator of the universe at any point in time. If God exists and it has fore-knowledge... Talking to the people you created would be akin to talking to movie you've already watched."

by Hym Iam March 30, 2025

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Evidence

F*cking bad opinion or fact

That Evidence killed my mother f*cker.

by Get the motherfucker September 23, 2020

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Proof by lack of evidence

The proof by lack of evidence fallacy is claiming something is true simply because nobody has yet given any evidence to the contrary.

Torturer: You are a heretic! You can't prove that you aren't one, so you are a heratic. Confess, or we will stretch your body out until you are a foot taller.

Accused: Ha, you did it - you committed the proof by lack of evidence fallacy!

Torturer: That's enough out of you. Brutus, give the wheel another turn.

by DonutLoverr May 28, 2024

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