The Demon-Haunted World¶
Sagan, C. (1995). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Random House.
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Primes¶
- Vantage-Induced Omission
- Its clarifying force is to convert "the data show X" into "the data reachable from this vantage show X, and here is what lies outside reach" — a reframing that makes the apparatus's boundary an explicit object of analysis rather than an invisible default.
This sourceDistinguishes absence of evidence from evidence of absence; the apparatus's reachability as the structural mechanism behind the slogan.
- Its clarifying force is to convert "the data show X" into "the data reachable from this vantage show X, and here is what lies outside reach" — a reframing that makes the apparatus's boundary an explicit object of analysis rather than an invisible default.
Mechanisms¶
- Confirmation Probe Request
- A single well-placed probe is often the highest-yield move in the whole pattern: it directly attacks the false-absence risk that the maxim "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" warns about, and it does so before any costly action fires.
This sourceStates that absence of evidence is not itself evidence of absence.
- A single well-placed probe is often the highest-yield move in the whole pattern: it directly attacks the false-absence risk that the maxim "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" warns about, and it does so before any costly action fires.
- Negative-Evidence Reliability Review
- The review is precisely the machinery that decides when absence of evidence may, and may not, be treated as evidence of absence.
This sourceWarns that a lack of observed evidence does not by itself establish that the phenomenon is absent.
- The review is precisely the machinery that decides when absence of evidence may, and may not, be treated as evidence of absence.
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