Sentences with phrase «assumed from ignorance»

Some of these are assumed from ignorance: science might not yet have any workable and tested theory or model to deal with that class of phenomena.

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I can only assume from such ignorance that you simply don't know many atheists.

One last bone I'd like to pick and a particularly gnarly bone that might take my entire career and more to address, is that when infants are transferred from home to hospital, it is far too frequent that the NICU team assumes homebirth - based midwives could not possibly provide adequate care and that our report must be tainted with lies and ignorance.

I found it came mostly from their ignorance of the subject, assuming cloth diapers were like ours Mother's.

Assuming your comment survives moderation, as it may well be considered sloganeering, your argument from ignorance (that is, lack of knowledge) is not universalizable.

These studies have another basic flaw: the analyses usually involve an «argument from ignorance» (i.e. «we can only explain this if we assume...»), where unknown factors are simply ignored and the assumption is that all factors can be accounted for.

«Rigorous processes» may help avoid a hockey - stick fiasco, but there are still two very basic problems: a) the proxy data themselves are often dicey, especially when the time scale is large, and b) the interpretation of the data is based on an «argument from ignorance» (i.e. «we can only explain this if we assume...»), where unknown factors are simply ignored and it is falsely assumed that we have the knowledge of all factors that could possibly have been involved; if these studies are used to provide evidence for a preconceived hypothesis, I think they are next to worthless.

Fred, your comments once again show that you are simply assuming CO2 drives temperature without strong evidence and dismissing natural variability from ignorance.

Likewise, every attorney that complains about a piece of technology would be assumed to not be speaking from a place of ignorance, but rather to be giving an informed analysis of a tool.

These common mis - diagnoses stem from an ignorance among professionals about specific social and emotional characteristics of gifted children which are then mistakenly assumed by these professionals to be signs of pathology.