In a message dated 2/18/2008 6:19:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, ian.woollard@gmail.com writes:
Do you have any evidence to support this claim?>> --------------------- You can't prove a negative statement. There is no basis, in evidence, to say that this view is the majority view. That's my opinion, based on the fact, that no evidence has been presented.
I cannot prove that no evidence exists. It's an impossibility. If such evidence exists, then it behooves the person making the *positive* statement to show it.
Will Johnson
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On 18/02/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
I cannot prove that no evidence exists. It's an impossibility. If such evidence exists, then it behooves the person making the *positive* statement to show it.
But your statement was not a negative statement, it was a positive statement that more than 50% of Moslems have no problem with images of Muhmmad:
"The vast majority of Muslims have no problem with images of Muhammad in books like encyclopedias."
but you've just admitted that you have no evidence either way, and that, in your words "it behooves the person making the *positive* statement to show it."
You're not really helping the discussion here either way, Will.
Will Johnson