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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Oh, how fun! I've played this game:
1. Assumption of harm only harms your assumption.
2. Evidently presumption sometimes presumes to be evidence.
3. If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have inlaws.
(Yeah.. I know that last one technically breaks the pattern, but it's hard to deny its cleverness)
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Another good one is " If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle" .
Anywho AOEINEOA is a pithy rejoinder to what high falutin logicians call "the argument from ignorance" . Mr. Carl Sagan:
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Appeal to ignorance: the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa. (e.g., There is no compelling evidence that UFOs are not visiting the Earth; therefore, UFOs exist, and there is intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. Or: There may be seventy kazillion other worlds, but not one is known to have the moral advancement of the Earth, so we're still central to the Universe.) This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.[
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, THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD
Here, its difficult to identify or quantify Harry T's losses from piracy , but that doesn't mean they don't exist, and may even be substantial. I think he has a right to take umbrage, and frankly even to call them " thieving bastards" .