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lordbusiness on Feb 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?

The parent makes a solid point, and you're employing this logical fallacy, which is why I am down voting you.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule

heinrich5991 on Feb 25, 2015 | [–]

Say what's wrong, but don't call it "that fallacy". Those "appeals to fallacies" are really what destroys useful Internet discussions.

gwern on Feb 25, 2015 | | [–]

Ridicule is not what he's appealing to, rather, the basic evidential principle that absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

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