Username: Additional_Goose_556
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Interlocutor: Redditor7
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Subreddit: DebateAnAtheist
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Preface: A classic example of the Appeal to Ignorance fallacy.
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Redditor7:
Devils, demons and gods don't exist.
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Additional_Goose_556:
Devils, demons and gods don't exist.
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How do you know this?
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Redditor7:
So you have any evidence for their existence?
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Additional_Goose_556:
So you have any evidence for their existence?
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You ignored my question. Now it is fair for me to ignore your questions.
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Perhaps ignoring and flipping the pressure is what you do when you're asked to support a baseless claim.
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Redditor7:
Well I'm not the one making the claim that the fore mentioned figments of the imagination are true. The burden of proof lies with the believer. To answer your question, I know this because there is no evidence. That is why I asked you, what is your evidence........ but I already knew you have none.
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Additional_Goose_556:
Well I'm not the one making the claim that the fore mentioned figments of the imagination are true. The burden of proof lies with the believer. To answer your question, I know this because there is no evidence. That is why I asked you, what is your evidence........ but I already knew you have none.
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So you know it is false by a lack of evidence.
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You are appealing to ignorance. That is an informal logical fallacy. Something isn't false just because it hasn't been proven true to you.
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Appeal to Ignorance: Argument from ignorance, also known as appeal to ignorance, is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true.
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This burden of proof system of yours is very odd and works in favor of people who like appealing to ignorance in the way you did.
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Want to hear mine? The burden of proof is equally on everyone who makes a claim.
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The burden of proof lies with the believer.
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You are the believer that specifically believes "God doesn't exist". You claimed it, so the burden of proof is on you, believer.
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Also, you don't believe figments of the imagination are true?
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