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Re:There is no evidence for X by pfdietz on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:16PM (#46891024)
And yet, people confuse the two.

"There is no evidence for life elsewhere in the universe."

"So you believe we're alone in the universe?"

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Re:There is no evidence for X by cadabrabra on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:17PM (#46891042)
It’s a common confusion, often subconsciously deployed in the context of trying to cope with the possibility of something undesirable turning out to be true.
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Re:There is no evidence for X by pfdietz on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:31PM (#46891261)
It's also important to distinguish "I don't believe X" from "I believe not-X".

English is poorly suited to expressing this distinction.

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Re:There is no evidence for X by buttstuff69420 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:46PM (#46891494)
No. What happened here is you confused semantics for logic.
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