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The book is a tireless exercise of that philosopher's pastime, burden-tennis. Burden, burden, who has the burden of proof now? Fodor mostly plays solitaire burden-tennis, against an imaginary opponent often personified as Granny or Aunty, which permits him to express the opposition view in terms that suit his rebuttal, without having to address the issue of whether this is a sympathetic rendering of any real opponent's claims.
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is often used for establishing the plausibility of a claim based on observed evidence. Though inductive reasoning may not provide absolute certainty about negative claims, this is only due to the nature of inductive reasoning; inductive reasoning provides proof from probability rather than certainty.
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Fodor is too wise to think his series of arguments can flat disprove the claims of the opposition, so time and again he resorts to claims about shifting the burden of proof, begging the question, outsmarting by embracing the conclusions of reductios, and other exploitations of the rules of the game.
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is accepted in its place. If the data are consistent with the null hypothesis, then the null hypothesis is not rejected. In neither case is the null hypothesis or its alternative proven; the null hypothesis is tested with data and a decision is made based on how likely or unlikely the data are. This
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In a legal dispute, one party is initially presumed to be correct and gets the benefit of the doubt, while the other side bears the burden of proof. When a party bearing the burden of proof meets their burden, the burden of proof switches to the other side. Burdens may be of different kinds for each
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state that the phrase "you cannot prove a negative" is itself a negative claim that would not be true if it could be proven true. Many negative claims can be rewritten into logically equivalent positive claims (for example, "No Jewish person was at the party" is logically equivalent to "Everyone at
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When research presentations advance claims that many or most readers deem incredible, these claims are vulnerable to severe challenge. In response, there will typically be a rebuttal by the investigator, and then a fresh round of criticism. The burden of proof shifts back and forth between the
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here are sentence types that would require a great deal of work for one to get into a position to challenge, such as 'Red is a color,' 'There have been black dogs,' 'Lightning frequently precedes thunder,' and similar commonplaces. These are treated as 'free moves' by members of our speech
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a disputed claim. After litigants have met the burden of production and their claim is being considered by a trier of fact, they have the burden of persuasion, that enough evidence has been presented to persuade the trier of fact that their side is correct. There are different
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The party that does not carry the burden of proof carries the benefit of assumption of being correct, they are presumed to be correct, until the burden shifts after presentation of evidence by the party bringing the action. An example is in an American
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Wittgenstein rejects GIT, but, apparently favouring the "onus game" (or "burden tennis"), he unfortunately concludes (pp. 257–58) that "the burden of proof falls ... squarely on Wittgenstein's side" because of Wang's own 'principle of presumed
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a relationship between two phenomena (e.g. that a potential treatment has a measurable effect)—is a central task in the modern practice of science; the field of statistics gives precise criteria for rejecting a null hypothesis.
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Proponents of each approach criticize the other approach. Nowadays, though, a hybrid approach is widely practiced and presented in textbooks. The hybrid is in turn criticized as incorrect and incoherent—for details, see
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justificatory conversation......characterized by a person's sincere attempt to vindicate his or her entitlement to a belief by providing adequate reasons in its defense and responding to objections.
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Philosophical debate can devolve into arguing about who has the burden of proof about a particular claim. This has been described as "burden tennis" or the "onus game".
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here is no point in venturing to resolve a difference of opinion through an argumentative exchange of views if there is no mutual commitment to a common starting point.
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is assumed to be true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is assumed to be false because it has not yet been proven true.
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The concept of a null hypothesis is used differently in two approaches to statistical inference. In the significance testing approach of
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The null hypothesis is generally assumed to be true until evidence indicates otherwise. In statistics, it is often denoted
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he point of articulating reasons in defense of one's belief is to establish that one is justified in believing as one does.
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The burden of proof is usually on the person who brings a claim in a dispute. It is often associated with the Latin
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claim is the opposite of an affirmative or positive claim. It asserts the non-existence or exclusion of something.
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unlikely to have occurred if the null hypothesis were true. In this case the null hypothesis is rejected and an
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reject the notion that it is intrinsically impossible to prove negative claims. Philosophers Steven D. Hale and
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One way in which one would attempt to shift the burden of proof is by committing a logical fallacy known as the
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techniques to choose the most appropriate model. (The most common selection techniques are based on either
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community—they are available to just about anyone any time to use as premises, to assert unchallenged.
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to meet the burden of proof is usually determined by context and community standards and conventions.
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Inductive reasoning also does not provide absolute certainty about positive claims.
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This article is about burden of proof as a philosophical concept. For other uses, see
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Obligation on a party in a dispute to provide sufficient warrant for their position
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argument are typical methods to fulfill the burden of proof for a negative claim.
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to justify or substantiate that claim, especially when it challenges a perceived
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investigator and the critic in what might be called the game of 'burden tennis'.
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A negative claim may or may not exist as a counterpoint to a previous claim. A
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Statistical inference can be done without a null hypothesis, by specifying a
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contexts (such as the evaluating the existence or nonexistence of unicorns),
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is a minimal burden to produce at least enough evidence for the
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corresponding to each candidate hypothesis and using
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Index

Burden of proof (logical fallacy)
Burden of proof
Latin
warrant
claim
Hitchens's razor
Sagan standard
syllogisms
mathematical
logical proofs
evidence
argument from ignorance
proposition
negative
Logicians
philosophers of logic
Stephen Law
formal logic
mathematics
negation
proposition
modus tollens
reductio ad absurdum
empirical
inductive reasoning
proof of impossibility
evidence of absence
public arena of ideas
assumptions
Burden of proof (law)

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