[blml] Any redress or rub of the green [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Herman De Wael:

>>And you think that citing one example from 1980 strengthens your
>>argument? Rather, it strengthens mine. In 50 years of WC reporting,
>>you find one example where it would have been better to follow your
>>advice. I think that means that my advice is more effective, don't
>>you? No, of course you don't,

Alain Gottcheiner:

>Herman, you should consider Einstein's view.
>After a whole book was written by about 100 pro-nazi scientists to
>falsify his Relativity Theory, he commented :
>"Well, that proves I'm right. Were I wrong, one professor would have
>been quite enough".
>
>To be fair, it's the same wise man who once said "I learned many
>years ago not to waste time trying to convince my colleagues"

Wikipedia, logical fallacy of "argumentum ad ignorantiam":

The argument from personal incredulity, also known as argument from
personal belief or argument from personal conviction, refers to an
assertion that because one personally finds a premise unlikely or
unbelievable, the premise can be assumed not to be true, or
alternately that another preferred but unproved premise is true
instead.
.....
Merely because the person making the argument cannot imagine how
scenario "A" might have happened does not necessarily mean that the
person's preferred conclusion (scenario "B") is correct. As with
other forms of the argument from ignorance, the arguer in this
instance has arrived at a conclusion without any evidence supporting
the preferred hypothesis, merely for lack of being able to imagine
the alternative.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6223 9052

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