Posted: Jul 05, 2014 7:38 am
Soral wrote:Argumentum ad ignorantiam.
Er, no. That's remaining agnostic. Argumentum ad ignoratiam is I don't know how my claim could be false, therefore it isn't.
The notion of spontaneous human combustion being impossible is not my mere opinion as it is a statement that is grounded on fundamental physics, biology - as well as chemistry. We don't see people regularly causing hospital fires after being admitted with a fever, despite the fact that hospitals are rather dry, and the bedding flammable, they have all perished before they got to within 600 degrees of that point (give or take 100 depending on the bedding..).
That's all very true, but at the end of the day it's up to the claimant to provide positive evidence of their claim.. We don't have to jump through hoops proving them wrong. Burden of proof and all that.