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		fit2rule on March 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet... The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and so on. We don't know for sure there isn't life on Titan; we just haven't seen enough evidence yet.

nannal on March 2, 2018 [–]

We can apply the same logic to draw a number of other useless conclusions.

fit2rule on March 2, 2018 | [–]

Rather, we can apply the same logic to "not yet draw conclusions", though I do agree with you that not being able to draw conclusions, is useless.

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