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Originally Posted by sjastro
I was highlighting the logical fallacy "argumentum ad ignorantiam" where a premise can be assumed to be false, or alternatively that another preferred but unproven premise is true instead.
The assumption that today's theories will be replaced in the future because history proves this is an example of this fallacy.
Steven
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And then there's the old adage "Ignore history at your own peril"
Today's theories may or may not be replaced, but to dismiss the fact that previous ideas have invariably been either supplanted or highly supplemented by new ideas, as being fallacy, is skating on thin ice.