Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework
by leereeves on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:46PM
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Only if you make the significant (and I think unwarranted) assumption that the advantage the genus homo had over other apes was climate adaptation and not greater intelligence, standing upright, etc.
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Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework
by dragonwriter on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:48PM
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> Only if you make the significant (and I think unwarranted) assumption that homo sapiens' advantage over other apes was climate adaptation and not greater intelligence, standing upright, etc.
No, it's evidence both for the general conclusion and that specific point, it doesn't require that point as an assumption.
Evidence is any fact whose existence makes a conclusion more likely than it would be in the absence of that fact.
Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework
by leereeves on Friday September 13, 2019 @03:01PM
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Given X could potentially cause Y, the fact that Y happened is not evidence of X.
In other words, the mere fact that something happened isn't evidence for a proposed (even plausible) cause. Proving the cause requires further evidence.